Journal
Cx72 Poetry: Peter Gizzi
April 8, 2021
SUNDAY’S EMPIRE
The roofs speak
as light over
the scaped silence.
A cacophony
of shapes
kicks off into sky.
People live here
in the quiet
a day undresses.
Tones shaking out.
ARCHIVAL LIGHT
I love how
light comes
through
charcoal
on a page,
a particular
paper light
that archivists
and lovers
of books
also live in
or it lives
within us.
But you left
me on the daze
of sun left
on the table,
a warm
wood light
that was pleasant
as the goneness
set up inside me.
The goneness
that is me.
What of
the days
we walked
to green.
What did
it mean
when you said
I am closer
to you now
as you dis-
appeared
into blue
unfolding
into blue.
I get
confused.
I live in
goodbye.
I live in
late light
going darker.
Late light
on a page,
on skin,
in my life.
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Peter Gizzi’s recent books include Now It’s Dark (2020) and Archeophonics (2016). Also in 2020, Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems came out in the UK.