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Joseph Massey - Nothing More
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Nothing More
Joseph Massey
Clover mite crushed
under my finger, red
streak dragged over a blank
page, as blank
as the hour, the day,
despite the low hum
in the apartment:
refrigerator motor
kicking on, the old man
across the hall talking
to himself. It isn’t enough
to write into this
vacancy, to say
the day’s blank—
but what else is summer:
what doesn’t heat hollow
and reduce to a streak—
these blown husks
striking pavement,
a wasp trapped
between panes of glass.
Leave the page stained.
A book of stains.
The room dissolving
around a bolt of sun
slashed down the wall.
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