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.