The Second Day of Lent
︎︎︎ Joseph Massey
︎ Feb 20, 2026
Dusk rusts the window in an unlit room.
This ritual of time, what the body abides.
I sit in the center of it, and allow the darkness
to sweep the space bare.
Kneeling, I reach for the word:
the light that remains unpronounceable.
This ritual of time, what the body abides.
I sit in the center of it, and allow the darkness
to sweep the space bare.
Kneeling, I reach for the word:
the light that remains unpronounceable.
Joseph Massey is the author of Decades: Selected Poems, and he publishes a newsletter, Dispatches from the Basement. He lives in Upstate New York.