AFTER THE LIGHT SHOW


Everything is a language for something.

This gentle snowfall choreography

of tiny drones returning to their cases,

like strange moths fluttering down and settling,

is a transient allegory.

The nervous electric rhythms are gone

and all that remains to do in the calm

is to stare at these stars as they drop

and then strain to hear the living silence

in the gnawing insect voice of the night.

Published in “Cyphers”