Evening in Daylight

Consider it hung,
Consider it hanged.


The day concluding immensely
Across the sky, strafed by white


Bandages. A blanket
Abstraction—diphthong


At its center—one lettered stage
Right; stage left. Stars’ll be made


To rise up later: post-nude
Shines on a baby blank


Page. Their lit lungs
Alight, each blued-up


Flame’s a rise: each gassed
-out flame’s descendant.


 

Susan Comninos’s poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in the Harvard Review Online, Rattle, Subtropics, The Common, Southern Humanities Review and Prairie Schooner. 

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