#30 Between Dusk and Sunset

Twilight blue slides into the city
claiming space
and changing the mood.
Crowded thoughts
scatter across remnants
of busy streets and barren sidewalks.

The slanting indigo light pierces
romantic rendezvous and turns them into
“hey we just stopped to say hello”
and head separate ways
to grab a salad for dinner alone.

Cabernet lips pause, halfway through an order,
never mind, she says, as down the street
a man in faded jeans, shirt untucked,
not a hipster, but tries to be,
reads newspaper headlines
that are already old news.

A cat on a windowsill,
restless in the blue slate twilight,
tail twitching, whiskers alert,
wonders who disturbed him. Again.
Someone in the alley below, probably.

Arms around each other,
a couple finds their way through
the city.
As darkness descends and
night takes over,
they disappear too.