323 North Fifth Street, Reading
In the walled space between
red brick rowhouses
heal us, Sandman
sliver of sky and a girl
of half-risen day
who conjures in the sandbox
under a dusty moon
these bricks where
cake, fish, catacomb
winding and unwinding sheets
with the difficult rightness
of sand three stories down
to the black iron fire escape:
Heal us, Sandman,
with the difficult rightness
of half-risen day,
these bricks where
the redness sticks fast.
Photo credit: frogmuseum2
