Splinters / Dark Streets  

Stop motion time is
blank stop motion and the will
is slow and broken

parts that lock at bad angles
like limbs in odd place–
–s jutting to completion

at the tips of square
clouds heavy with rain that block
the stars and moonlight

on an otherwise clear night
where my thoughts should skip
but now sink as round pebbles

on a wind-blown lake
without water; frozen in
the mountain’s shadow

as motion stops time
is blank.

© 2006 Patrick M. Pilarski