Roger Singer

Sometime Night

in the distance
a passing train
releases its name
over a
midnight village
where
a blinking yellow
traffic light
speaks to an
empty road
and street-
light shadows
as evening
breezes whisper
stirring laundry
and flags

Dr. Roger Singer is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut, and past president of the Connecticut Shoreline Poetry Chapter, in association with the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has had over 1,300 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee.