Wakened at
Three thirty in the morning
Thup thup thup of rotors
Police helicopter overhead
Walk to the window
Look into the night
Fat beam of searchlight
Spidering across the neighborhood
Searching for what?
Or who?
I wonder
Did I lock the door?
Published: Page & Spine 2013
Postcard from Amsterdam
Bruce Louis Dodson is an American expat living in Borlänge, Sweden, where he practices photography and writes fiction and poetry. Some of his most recent work has appeared in: Breadline Press West Coast Poetry Anthology, Foreign & Far Away – Writers Abroad Anthology, Sleeping Cat Books – Trip of a Lifetime Anthology, The Crucible, Blue Collar Review, Barely South Review, 3rd Wednesday, The Path, Northern Liberties Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Sounds of Solace – Meditative Verse Anthology, Tic Toc Anthology, High Coupe, and Vine Leaves.
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