2 December 2003 | Vol. 3, No. 4
Away and Indoors on a Sunny Day in Bergen
Light pours into the space between
here and the next thing I can see.
Life on second floors means to know
a city by its chimney pots
means to miss the docks and glittered waters.
In rooms speech and movement fade
and the windows trouble like a ringing ear.
If we cannot be somewhere near home
if we cannot be together at coffee or sea
could we not go outside
and blink against our good fortune?
About the author:
William Winfield Wright lives in Grand Junction, Colorado, teaches at Mesa State College, has published most recently in the Beloit Poetry Journal, was a Fulbright in Norway, and is guest editing a dual-language issue (English/Norwegian) of the literary journal PINYON. He can be reached at wwwright@mesastate.edu.
For further reading:
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