Passage

What crosses the page.

salt flat at moody sunset

How is it that we move from first love to loss so completely, and what makes the new state as real as the first? The world has a way of calling out the will to speak, to wrap some form around the formless, to create horizons at the edges of a given space, from which to trace the arrivals and departures of the sun. Or suns. I do not know which. The poem is passage, not discourse, the endurance as much as the cocoon.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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