David Troupes: One Poem

David Troupes

David Troupes is a Massachusetts native now living in West Yorkshire, where he works in social housing. His first collection of poetry, Parsimony, was published in 2009 by Two Ravens Press (www.tworavenspress.com). His comic art can be seen at www.buttercupfestival.com, and he is currently seeking a publisher for his illustrated storybook, The Renaming of the Birds.

Bob and Jackie Watch Heat Lightning From Their Porch

The whip-poor-will has gone quiet,
reeled in its song
and swallowed its heart.

Only the crickets now
chant
against the nearing brain.

In the attic
a switch is thrown:
faint thunder like punched-in dough,

luminous
mile-high
clods of becoming,

and the worst of the weather
rolls gently at a distance.
We read our love

by the light of this lamp,
and sleep
to the rain that whets the summer mint.