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 SamDavid 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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March 13, 2018 at 2:04 AM

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