Stephen Jackson

ENSO | ON CIRCUMVENTION OF LIGHT

the extreme | walking through it
a rainy inked evening | or worse
letting it dull then die out, burnt 

core remains of vision, to suffer
a dead idea, fear it may come to
fruition, a not-allowing, a never

being, all-encompassing | while
to let it be, to burn bright bright
brighter, it becomes somewhere

a breach of boundary, uniting in
harmony, pure now, and so nigh
to death, new, to the taste of life

Stephen Jackson [he/him] lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. His poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Chronotope, Grey Sparrow Journal, International Human Rights Art Festival Publishes, Impossible Archetype, and pacificREVIEW. Please follow him at https://twitter.com/fortyoddcrows.