The Buttoning Of The Coats

Listen to this

nothing
outside
not even a dog barking

planes not flying
off the tarmac

some kind of hum
from the freeway

not much really
but so incessant

honk

listless unimportant
as we all are
on the couches
the crematoriums.

Aleutians
where are they again?

Listen
to the buttoning
of the coats.