Disturbing The Light

Selected Poems...

Disturbing the Light

sitting here in

the living room watching

the way the sunlight falls

across the floor making

these rectangles of light and

I remember how you

always avoided them

whenever you got up to

go to the bathroom or

the kitchen stepping

carefully over them or

walking around them but

never just going through them and

one day I asked you

why you did this and

you laughed, softly

said you didn’t want to

disturb the light and

now you’re gone and

I want to run around the room

scream at the top of my lungs and

step into the middle of

all those rectangles so

the light shines on me and

no longer touches the floor