stepped inside to sidestep
a throat-tickle chill in the air
an hour later fog fell
haze of night had smothered
murk-wise the tight street
only your own echoes
bounce off walls pavement
resonant but ghosted out
lamp-glare haunts the home-walk
Martin Potter (https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog) is a British-Colombian poet and academic, based in Manchester, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Poetry Village, and other journals. His pamphlet In the Particular was published in 2017.
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