Michael Julius

Tell them the truth about the dark

When all that you have
is this, and she gestures
broadly her sweeping arm

Below low clouds all of us
windswept and otherwise
unwise: is this the plan?

Here, I'm lost looking at light
streamed in and on tablets
glowing and glowering on

my periphery. While moths
and whatnot flutter from our
bent figures in paradise.

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