Population: 91

In Tensed, Idaho

the green sign low

to the earthy sod said

Population: 90

And the sinking sun

still struck the quiet town

lighting windows and their only street

at all odd angles

unmasking the empty place

as if everyone was gone

waiting for the seventy-seventh citizen

to give birth to the ninety-first baby

and the penciled pieces of paper

taped to every shop's window

said they were all gone to the waiting room,

waiting.