Shades of Difficulty – David Anthony Sam
A mother dies −
and her long shadow
stretches out winter
in my creased face.
I cannot liquefy,
so I become a hollow
where this Virginia snow
softens the darkness.
Within this difficulty,
this insubstantiality −
mostly water and mostly
empty space within −
we are these begetters
and these begotten,
mattered from an old sun
decaying from its core
into hypothermic shade,
somehow warmed
from absolutes of zero
lengthening with sunset.
David Anthony Sam lives in Virginia with his wife and life partner, Linda. He has four collections and his poetry has appeared in over 70 journals and publications. His chapbook Finite to Fail: Poems after Dickinson was the 2016 Grand Prize winner of GFT Press Chapbook Contest.
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