FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: STILL NIGHT Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Still Night are now published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, October 26th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Joe Grieco

NIGHT WINS


Electric air: breathe it in

and still night wins

We have an entire power station behind us in the headboard

and still night wins

Roll over roll over into the searchlights

our white flag all lit up

like a bedsheet stretched across the neon midway

You can’t miss it

And still night wins

Shall we agree to meet darkness half-way

No challenges, no tigers, no dogfights, a truce

Mourning doves pair-up, wings trussed

ready to surrender, to give in

But like Eve and Adam unplugged in Eden

for crimes of intimacy

there will be no mercy

Night wins


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