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     Poem added 5/24/99. By Ray Cummings:

     Ray Cummings is from Baltimore and very recently (just yesterday) graduated from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland with degrees in English and Philosophy. He's published his own 'zine, Slut, for over 5 years.

    POEM

And their laughter splinters the streets we
live and cheat on, black and sharp
never and all at once, half of one and a dozen
of another

Space to sigh in increments of three, and four
and counting stiffens, crumbles, doubles these dreams

Awake. Crisp static behooves late-morning larks
and you'll catch your fingers tapping morse
on the snooze button

These numbers stand mute.

                                                                             Ray Cummings

                                                                   copyright Ray Cummings

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