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Saturday, May 30, 2026

Alley of the Dawn - A Curated AI Poem / EZE, 2026

Prompt: With minimal use of rhyme and of meter, write a poem with these fragments: manger, precarious dangle, sheet shark, with the dark, sneakers, jogging suit, invoke, canopy.

AI

Alleys of the Dawn - An AI Poem


A discarded jogging suit and scuffed sneakers
lie tossed beside the plastic manger,
while the tangled wiring of broken lights
seems to precarious dangle over the scene.









Beneath a heavy, grey canvas canopy,
the shadows stretch long and cold.
We move cautiously through the alley,
fearing the silhouette of a loan sheet shark
circling just outside our circle of light.











There are no angels singing here,
only the shivering breath we exhale with the dark,
as we quietly invoke the dawn.










Alley of the Dawn - A Curated AI Poem


The shivering breath, we exhale, with the dark ...

and with nothing final, yet the alley ends ...

and darkness, for a while, is gone.


A discarded jogging suit and scuffed sneakers
lie tossed beside the plastic manger,
while the tangled wiring of broken lights
dangle precarious, dangle.

Whose silhouette, whose angle? A sheet shark
circling just outside our reach.

We should have had those facts.

In his pajamas.

Eric knew more than most.

Grab a fin!

And the dumpster, and the dumpster.

No angels singing here.

Too trite?

On whose computer is the question.

The spreadsheet in the Recycle Bin

Does your phone know this location?

How much is the ransom?

We wish we could.

Invoke, instead, the dawn.