"Night After Night"

In honor of National Poetry Month, I will be posting work by myself each Friday. This is a piece about our second, inner lives...so there is a feeling of never resting, going from wake to sleep but still always present, always engaged, always doing, seeing, hearing, walking, running.

Night After Night

Plateau on plateau,
haunted by ideas,
tossing and rolling, parsed out
quadrants of measurements that
don’t need to be measured.

Here we are again,
the same street, the same building,
the same rising water,
the shift.

It’s the same store selling the
same toys and food.

It’s the same Boardwalk and
the same restaurant where
you look in and see yourself,
a few years from now or
a few years ago,
wearing glasses you’ve never seen.

©JEF 2020