I hear ambulances pass,
their lights cross my brow,
rip night’s velvet.
Silence pauses at a red light,
a note in a pentagram
of dark & bright streets.
I hear death limos speed away
with the saddest noise.
Maybe I am wrong not to climb
into one of them. Maybe my last
good move is to remain
in your embrace
as they journey
through the night.
Sergio A. Ortiz is a two-time Pushcart nominee, a four-time Best of the Web nominee, and a 2016 Best of the Net nominee. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in FRIGG, Tipton Poetry Journal, Drunk Monkeys, Bitterzeot Magazine, Moko, and The Paragon Journal. He is currently working on his first full-length collection of poems, Elephant Graveyard.