Sudden Apparitions In the Night In Rural Somerset

White cars stationary on their roofs blocking rural arteries whilst severing others Unexpected loss of vertical hold and bodily functions frozen in the failing headlights Beautiful greenery ablaze, beside the twisted wreckage of man. A movement shakes away broken glass and the tarmac writhes free of the terrible pictures Running on the wide screen’s of my mind. Dripping petrol explosions and decapitation, Gruesome pictures I dreamt up while reality passed the windscreen and I, I sat there screaming inside. Luminous blue and an echoing voice rouse me from that dangerous moment, The phone weighs in once again in my hand. I’m rambling, or worse, but I get the message out And the comfort of my task ends with the depressed red button as The door clicks open A familiar face brings mind of the other and I’m out into the cold darkness Stepping slowly toward a nightmare vision that grew up in the dusk I find her and for a second we’re back laughing and smiling. Over her shoulder I see The groupings of people that sprung up from hedgerows, their halogen shadows Merged with the darkness of the incident. The car is much too white. Too strange an angle, yet there they sit Tingling on the verge of the roaring tributary And casually stemming the tide