4AM
It is four in the morning. A clock is not a machine; it is a pulse. At this hour, the world has no skin. It is an immense, white silence—a space so hollow that it begs to be filled, yet I am afraid to touch it with my clumsy hands. I have two hours. Two hours before the sun, that Great Executioner, arrives to organize the world into “useful” things. I want to write a poem that does not belong to me. I have written others, yes, but I have killed them all. I threw them away like old rinds. … Continue reading 4AM