flickering aftermath

 flickering pale patch of light

barely alive on my bedroom wall

enough to cause me to rise to look

out across the valley floor a mile

or more at brilliant light of ambulance

and unsynchronized blue and red

flashes of six emergency vehicles

another accident on the curve

of country road that has totaled

many cars including my own

when a rusted sedan took that bend

in the middle of the road

coming toward me