Tuesday poem #564 : Elana Wolff : Impromptu with an Emptying Pen

 

 

 

Let’s celebrate the short days, hours,
glint of hard sharp snow.
Tired bones and jokes, the bed that isn’t
big and firm enough,
the sheets that aren’t so fresh. 
Let’s brook the fear of disappearing, bear
with those who won’t bear back—
           this: the test,
the lesson.
Let’s navigate by plain first lines
that link to closing words
like knell and nugget;
touch the windows filled with night,
tap dark’s deep and radiating hearth.

Let’s celebrate the short days, hours,
tap dark’s deep and radiating hearth.

 

 

 

Elana Wolff lives and works in Thornhill, Ontario—the ancestral land of the Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat First Nations. Her poems have recently appeared (or will soon appear) in The Antigonish Review, Arc, Best Canadian Poetry 2024, FreeFall, Pinhole, Prairie Fire, and Yolk. Her cross-genre Kafka-quest work, Faithfully Seeking Franz, is newly released with Guernica Editions.

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