Splintered Light

Shards of shadow on the couch – ragged blades

of dark abrade the bright – arrest: induce a sharp

distress: the thought that this November flight

of filtered yellow-silver might be the equivalent of dust

erased from somewhere – caught, dismissed, discarded –

from and to a void – a vacancy, a senseless scheme:

regarded – seen – by nobody at all: as meaningless

as reflex – empty dream: the splintered light of Fall.

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