after
the day’s travel
wilderness roads
British Columbia
the campfire
crackles
broken branches
a sound like the wind
in the trees
a murky figure
I stoke the fire
and listen
Tony Howarth, editor for dramatic writing with The Westchester Review, is a playwright, director, former journalist, retired in 1991 after 28 years as a high school teacher of English and theatre in Westchester, NY.