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.
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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