Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Every Other I

composite photo by Andrew McCarthy

 

Fractured

I work

in the silence of night

I make nothing

late in the life

I know something

of light

I know something

of shadow

I wait for someone

to say goodbye to

I pray the rare

turns to sound






—with fractured lines from Rowan Ricardo Phillips' "Fracture the Night and Get Thee Gone"