Bruce McRae - Street Scene
Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician currently
residing on Salt Spring Island BC, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with over
1,600 poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books are
‘The So-Called Sonnets’ (Silenced Press); ‘An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy’;
(Cawing Crow Press); ‘Like As If’ (Pski’s Porch); ‘Hearsay’ (The Poet’s Haven).
Street Scene
On a street the name of which eludes me.
In a town of little import, one day in the
past,
a summer’s day, like countless days that
have been before,
comes the sound of weeping through an open
window,
the one with the flowerbox painted blue,
curtains fluttering
as only curtains in a summer breeze will
do.
Weeping, and music on a radio, an
indistinguishable tune.
And a cat on a stoop, licking its paw and
unconcerned
with cause and effect, untouched by the
vicissitudes of emotion.
Weeping, so a passerby may stop to listen
briefly, pausing
to consider the bulk of human despair, the immensity of sorrow,
before carrying on in a world in which we
all must wander.
It is an errand of some great importance.
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