Jake's Flea Market

we watched
that starless   moonless horizon rise
up like a curtain

the slow fade of the night   

i’d have rather watched the slow 
dawn from the preshow dark in the theatre

we watched the slow daybreak go up  

the plain as a stage revealed
a set furnished
across with chevaux de frise  1 
with a few trees   their histories
their futures in their skeletons

we watched the morning sun 
come up like a footlight

the next act
the eternal future to begin

we watched the upstage
entrance for nothing to appear

1.  A defensive obstacle; a barricade