For each dead city needs a laugh or two,<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n A little something so the skeletons can jeer<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n On nights like this when there\u2019s little to do<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n And nothing to haunt but the haunting lack of hope<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Where words are born to sputter anxiously<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Toward brief life in some half-bungled trope<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Irrecoverable etymologically.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Is there another cyclone on its way<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n To re-mix this desperation here?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n To make words and deeds mutually obey<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n A dim correspondence–never more clear<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Than the misshapen moon cruising so high<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Over the Brazos in the hopeless Waco sky?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n R. W. Haynes has taught literature at Texas A&M International University since 1992.\u00a0 His recent interests include the early British sonnet, and he is completing a second book on the Texas playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote (1916-2009).\u00a0 In his poetry, Haynes seeks to celebrate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without sounding any more dissonant notes than he has to.\u00a0 In fiction, he works toward grasping that part of the past which made its mark on his generation.\u00a0 He enjoys teaching drama, especially the Greeks, Ibsen, and Shakespeare, and he devoutly hopes for a stunning literary Renaissance in South Texas.<\/strong><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n editor@artvilla.com<\/a> <\/strong>www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes<\/a> <\/p>\n![\"On](\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Haynes-in-Savannah.jpg\")
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