Cover Your Mouth When You Don't Cough

Life in us is like the water in a river. Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. - Thoreau

Van Gogh's Starry Night.

meet me 'neath night's stars

coughing up lungs in the cold

selling but not sold

Author's Note

"Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Thomas W Case]

Tremendous work. I love Van Gogh. Well-crafted poem, Pete.