continuity girl by Tom Snarsky
I enter a lightless room
It’s ok to bleed sound into everything
To weave the little threads
To give the world again
Its character
If you felt the lightlessness
Had to give you
Permission I grant it
Here and now
On behalf of all these
Untaut strings
may 18th, 2020
Tom Snarsky is a high school math teacher. His chapbook Threshold is available from Another New Calligraphy, and you can read most of his work for free here.