You Sink You Glow


︎︎︎ Will Russo
︎ DEC 31, 2021


Time enough         the breadth of bed

beside me lost your imprint         the moon ages in suspense

      enters the room in slatted light to filch

the dim affliction        I search the smoothed sheet

for hindsight        the sullied vacancy          my hand a weightless

         thing        we float

when we believe ourselves winged         strange how empty

you grow         I stretch

      linen’s tension          it suits         dwells

less dense          this business of longing         of learning a body

                             over again.

























Will Russo
is a Chicago-based poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Watershed Review, Salamander, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Russo received a 2019 Pushcart Prize nomination and serves as Poetry Editor for Great Lakes Review.

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