Surprise On a City Street

Eighteen hours and you were here.

And they were surprised in the middle of the night,

there was enough light to see:

creation.

They wonder at the construction

of fingernails

and pupils.

It is enough

to withstand

the excrement and the pulling

hard on the bodies.

Grasping for the milk as if he were digging, digging...

Then there is the wide-mouthed-animal-screaming-him.

But…
On this long walk,

he is graffiti,

or loopy messages

discovered

in concrete

when they pause.