Thursday, December 29, 2022

Dark Matter

Seventy-degree rise in a week

 
In this empty week

between the loneliest holidays

we are left to witness

a parade of the lost.


Such solitude

in the grip of the past

the dead more real

than the living.


Most of the universe

is dark matter. You can't see it

but scientists assure us it's there.

We don't need convincing.