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“Be Still …”

“Be Still …”

it was

a night

when the lights

went out

and we sat there seven

in the dark

without our faces

on

and talked

and didn’t talk

and time did what time does

right there

in that brick box

we sat in

where the collection

of things

are kept

under lock and key

and in the pitch

we could not see

any of it

and we could breathe

a baby’s breath

a sigh of bliss

for all we miss

and I reach for this

when the lights go out

TL

Published inTamiko Lowery