Jeff P. Jones

More Fire  

Midnight on the Gulf of Finland

    Spreads black so thin it bleeds

      Into blue. From every country

We leave our rooms, walk along streets

    Past raccoon-eyed youth, past babushka

      Tribes hawking jars of berries, all of us

Trapped in an in-between world

    Gauzed with blue. For ten years

      I have lived that night, smelt smoke

Purling up under a sky without light,

    Without dark, waited for morning’s golden

      Wince, that first parting of the blinds.

 

 

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