The Spirit Is Gone
written by: Jenise Cook
@jenisecook
The Spirit Room has no spirit,
lost in quiet darkness.
The sad siren call of a lone singer on the stone steps
bounces off the cold façades of shuttered businesses.
Friday night in Jerome, Arizona,
frozen by the virus and chaotic guidelines.
Streets once bustling with laughter, rock and roll, and vehicles
now lay in ghost-town silence,
save for the sad siren call of a lone singer on the stone steps.
Jenise Cook
Jenise Cook lives in northern Arizona, where it snows, with her husband and their herding dog Mattie. Jenise writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her works are on Mojave H[eart] Review, CommuterLit, Lost Pen Magazine, and several Medium.com publications.
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