Michael P. Hill: “Ghost Sign”
GHOST SIGN
On the side of an old building
in the middle of downtown,
a spectral Owl Cigar advert
from another century is taking
its own sweet time to disappear,
those once-bright colors receding
into the rust red brick of the past,
where its claim of “now 5 cents”
still holds true and its owl logo
perches patiently, peering out
through the years, all the way
to the present, where it goes on
slipping ever so slowly from sight.
Michael P. Hill is the author of the chapbooks Not Just Passing Through (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2022) and Junk Drawer (Kelsay Books, 2021). His poems have also appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Briar Cliff Review, and Gray’s Sporting Journal, among others.