Wooden-legs

Fotografia de Stephanie Ecate

The man on stilts

lights his cigar

from the glow

of a street-lamp.

Walking home from work,

too tired to jump down,

he peers into

all the upstairs windows

of every lovers' lane

and counts

naked bodies by moonlight.

Home at last,

he swings onto his roof

and sleeps on the shingles.

Marjorie Hawksworth