Mark Cunningham

Second Story

Flashlight

There's not enough light
to do all that's needed,
so Edison figured out
 
the electric bulb; but
after you're done with that
you still have to get up
 
and find the bathroom.
You blaze the torch, but
it's you burning, burning.
 
Or you just need to
turn down the furnace.
Hours after you thought
 
you were finished, the last
trail of shine leads to this:
you click off the beam
 
and see farther and farther
through what you took for
darkness but is only night.


 

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