<div class="page photo" style=""> <article> <header style=" background-image:url(/uploads/5458ed64635ea.jpg); "> <div class="box"> <div class="intro" style="color: #ffffff;"> <h1 style="color: #ffffff !important;">Nightly Moves</h1> <p class="summary">A Poem. </p> </div> </div> </header> <div class="main"> <div class="container"> <p class="byline">Carter Vance </p> <p>The early-oncoming chill of unseasonable<br>September slithers around broken <br>church tenement's cracked oak windowframe, <br>wraps about my shoulders as patch-patterned <br>quilting, each square a figment-face lost<br>in wiry AT&T-Rogers state code<br>speaking,<br><br>A stench of stoked coal burns through <br>sinus, infected with a slimmer shape's <br>possible promise, the hammered smokestack<br>clang of smelting steel fell silent,<br>bright as the motel vacancy sign once<br>could have been before a manager neglected<br>maintenance. <br><br>We fill time as teacup jades, <br>blackened patterns crawling through the <br>winded cupboard clatters, of cement <br>and plaster still finding its settle in<br>the bony fragment sand.</p> </div> </div> </article> </div><!-- /page-->