Night ornamented
by the air of pious sewers.
The sand is sighing.

Along the shore
a crowd gathers for a fireworks display.
When the event is canceled they throw rocks.

The wounded are carried off.
The night shines down
with only the smallest recorded changes from the century before.

Ian Randall Wilson’s

poetry and fiction have appeared in many journals including North American Review and Puerto del Sol. His chapbook, The Wilson Poems, was published by Hollyridge Press. He is on the fiction faculty at the UCLA Extension. By day, he works for Sony Pictures.

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