Midnight Perimeters

                            Layered in satin, stretched loosely out across cotton bedsheets. It is the fragile, vulnerable hours, of upheaval and formidable dismay . Nightgowns of old song and binding. Years of fainted medallions and frail withered oak, mounting the midnight skies through sold afternoon drapery. Old catalogs and time, we hung on tight, through faded stories and pages. It was her dead husband's cloak that swarmed her pale eyelids to placid symmetrical framing. The adjacent apartment bathroom, with windows open, letting late breezes in to rest around her pale wrinkled skin.
                           Domestic carpeting, soiled and crimson in unraveling boundaries. Tricks being played upon elderly vision. Porcelain and crinkled, crackled and torn. Ripped coupons in Sunday purses upon township bus stations. Ticketed and supervised, placement homes in thwarted recreational expectation. Below vacant park pavilions, encounters prevailed in historical measurement. Air-conditioned in the Summer, on lacquered coffee-tables beside the television. Portraying commercial intervals, in minute seconds ticking, to dark impending doom, or raw immaculate heavens, aside the cross, the Christ, or blood-red jewelery.
                           Cars motored once across this dismal plateau, amidst the tranquil heat of the season. Transactions once placed in the hearth of youthful utopias. Sweat profusely dripped in laborious awakenings, then unfolded to logical assumptions. Henry, the youthful used car salesman, (her husband) would surprise her in post-wedding arenas. Gorgeous sunflowers would dry onto decaying disintegration, before the valley's peak. It was the materialistic folly of money and hardship, upon their suburban perimeter.
                           Broken in beside abandoned highways. Sordid trash piles being heaped in towering mounds upon rupturing pavements. Alleyways of old to bring in the new fresh springtime pain of early adulthood. Watch it linger, heaving in tedious annoyance. See flesh aflame below radiant suns, and toxic disposal. The credit card plastic molds to sizzling sidewalks.