The Midnite Show

Red-Wigglers, Night-Crawlers
& Other Worms
look out
into the crapulous moonlight:
 
figures of women cascading through the Sunday night;
 
no beer in sight.
 
I remember the Night-blooming
Cereus by Dr. Thornton, Engraver, Blake’s
patron, it
hangs in the hall outside the bedroom
swaying hungrily like these
giant white goddesses of the dark grotto…
 
there are touring cars
and men with large guns
singing through the woods
 
behind us.
 


Copyright Credit: Jonathan Williams, "The Midnite Show" from Jubilant Thicket: New & Selected Poems. Copyright © 2005 by Jonathan Williams.  Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press.
Source: Jubilant Thicket: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)