THREAT LEVEL
- Peter
Robinson (U.K.)
Yet even in clear daylight
the hauntings may return
when a driver’s window opens
on that narrow street beside you,
someone’s shadowing your shadow
or another’s metal tread
rings out across neglected spaces
of more failed developments …
and though this isn’t Copenhagen,
Brussels, Amsterdam or Paris,
no, it’s Parma, even here
with personal threat-level rising
paces quicken at the dread
of what may be behind you,
however innocent that shadow
or unreasonable your fear.