There in the darkness
silence dwells, and the long
wait for morning, daylight
around the window shade
in what’s left of night;
nothing here is exceptional,
someone sitting on the side
of the bed, feet on the floor,
writing with the patience
of the resigned; observe
the architecture of darkness,
the slow construction of light
across the bedroom floor
(it will all work out
it always has), and the steady
hum of an electrical appliance
in another room;
this is when the poem
of morning is created;
we are workers in the darkness,
early risers, busy with
the enterprise of light.
Each of us, in turn, has to answer, in one word,
the question: What are you feeling?
In December no less, when it gets dark at four
and this classroom’s been double-booked.
Another band of politicized marginals
prowls restless in the corridor
the question: What are you feeling?
In December no less, when it gets dark at four
and this classroom’s been double-booked.
Another band of politicized marginals
prowls restless in the corridor