Krog St. Tunnel

The Krog St. Tunnel is an Atlanta landmark.

read the tonguing voices

and estranged eye hooks

mesmerizing

murderous Morse

code on cinder block walls

mouths never open, always

breathing, yet

incarcerated in the

floodlights of the nightshade

stalking you

those who wrote

letters and numbers

not of Cyrillic origin

NOM-un-8-ed

you

their ghostless skulls

appear and

vanish in concrete smoke

this urbanspace is

the first frontier

are you a Krog-er?

do you have the smARTS

to decipher the

eye-sle of warbling calls

or the street names

wroken into bricks

like Braille

backwards and 

forwards, untranslated

but

there for your transcription

the encryption is not

ill-edge-able

and am I one

who passes through,

pin-ticking

sound-senations

of these nocturnal doorways

unlistening?

these are tablets

stone ink

light and

brush

hammer and

chisel

a part of 

the city.