Flashes at Night

Stars are less bright
Than these flashes at night
Meteoric roars of the trams as they clash
Through the deep-deft gash
of the tunnel; that break the still
Silence that slept on the hill—
Flashes at night.

Sec them afar;
Like a star
That crosses the firmament's are With a curve and a beam.,
It flashed through the gloom
Of the dusk, as a tomb
Is reft in the death of the dark By a sprite or a dream.

Green lightenings-phantom hosts!
Tindersparks from caverns,
Where glow-worms sit,
Their lamps alit,
Frail mentors of the darkness-woven.
Dashes and flashes-energycrashes—
Spearheads driven—
Flashes from trams,
Strinking from jams,
Of trollies-flashes lashing heaven

—D.M.S.