Lightless by Clinton Van Inman
Each year the light is less
We can barely see it now
The faint necklace of The Milky Way.
The old ones were wrong
You know with their waxed fingers
Pointing up like abandoned adobe.
Yet you know better in your cubical gardens
And half moth-eaten moons
You have arrived in
Handcuffs.
Clinton Van Inman was born in Walton-on-Thames, England in 1945. He graduated from San Diego State University in 1977 with a BA in Philosophy. He has been an educator most of his life and is currently a high school teacher (planning to retire this year) in Tampa Bay where he lives with his wife, Elba.
Each year the light is less
We can barely see it now
The faint necklace of The Milky Way.
The old ones were wrong
You know with their waxed fingers
Pointing up like abandoned adobe.
Yet you know better in your cubical gardens
And half moth-eaten moons
You have arrived in
Handcuffs.
Clinton Van Inman was born in Walton-on-Thames, England in 1945. He graduated from San Diego State University in 1977 with a BA in Philosophy. He has been an educator most of his life and is currently a high school teacher (planning to retire this year) in Tampa Bay where he lives with his wife, Elba.
