The Music of Someone Else’s Noise

By Jenny Middleton

waiting in darkness   
        the man
    at the bus stop 
shifts his weight from foot 
        to foot 

watching from inside 
       the shelter
I can hear the music 
      of cold air 
sliding beneath his feet

all the while the city trees
   are exchanging 
    their damp leaves 
for the road’s fumes 

eating the white noise 
    of  the traffic 
into the closeness of their 
    bark 

until I can’t see him 
   leaving anymore 
but see him returning 
    to the red seat 
of the bus stop, glowing 
   in its florescence. 

Jenny Middleton is a working mum and writes whenever she can amid the fun and chaos of family life. Her poetry is published in several printed anthologies, magazines and online poetry sites.  Jenny lives in London with her husband, two children and two very lovely, crazy cats.  You can read more of her poems at her website  https://www.jmiddletonpoems.com.

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