Poem of Respite Written with Ultraviolet Light
With daylight in your pocket and balcony at your feet,
take this: a sheet of kisses, sheet of respite, for even
the dusk-drunk sky bows down in esteem of itself.
Debussy plays from a speaker somewhere, bending
notes like sugarcane. O’Hara, too, with entire concertos
inside the collected works collected upon my lap.
It’s hard to write about a moment that is more of a poem
than any pyramid of prose could ever rise toward:
place of sun and sonnet, of Clair de lune and blackbird calls.
A marvel that this is the world we live in sometimes,
with the hours passing slowly, slowly, now—
Adam Gianforcaro is the author of the poetry collection Every Living Day (Thirty West, 2023). His poems can be found in The Offing, Poet Lore, Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in the tiny state of Delaware in the US.
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