Michael Edwards

A STRANGER

 

 

 

A STRANGER

 

 

A blackened cloud-wrapped vaulted sky

save in the east where furnaces

threw shades of thermogenic blush

as constellations float behind

a blackened cloud-wrapped vaulted sky

 

The stranger stood in wet surtout

no candle burned within his gaze

his back towards the furnaced sky

in mired  ruts where carts had passed

the stranger stood in wet surtout.

 

A mill of aspect undefined

no chink of light was seen within

where cogs and stone were disengaged

the stranger stood in dark before

a mill of aspect undefined.

 

In need of toil the stranger left

His planned return at break of dawn.

 

 

 

( My own form which I call an Ednet. It consists

of 17 lines in 4 stanzas of 5, 5, 5, and 2 lines. The only other ‘rule‘

being that in the first 3 stanzas line 1 is repeated in line5.)