A missing girl skips past the abandoned school yard.
In plate glass, the phantom images of shadow people are blown hither and thither, like straw persons, their movement surreptitious as in underworld areas of ingress to panhandle and retreat. A shuffle promenade, not quite a progress.
Wrecked fields where torn papers scatter in the wind.
Children would play amid the waste, were there children, were the missing children here.
Above the play structures the two feathers hang in the trees, among the branches. A small red shimmering light and a small white shimmering light.
The wind moaning, the dog someone beats distantly howling, but the dark need not fear the dark.
Half the sky for praying, the other half for the beauties of the night.
Plumes: Adolphe Millot, in Larousse pour tous: nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique (1907-1910)
Salat times: image by LooiNL, 2007