| Paul Ramirez Jonas
by Kiki Eleonore Anderson
"A Longer Day"
Something about the sun setting gets my mind turning
towards death.
Something about it, like the sun sinking into the lake, everyone out to watch it go away.
Or how the sun goes down,
meets waves of heat
radiating off pavement,
and "That’s a mirage," she says.
Something about the sun setting.
Something,
like the sun sinking,
down, into a lake,
people stand in sand and
watch it go away.
To wear wax wings,
get too close,
melt, tumble and return,
plunge through stratosphere,
into troposphere, and out,
back down.
To drive, and then, to live.
To chase the rays, to
roll ahead, reeling
at the simplicity of a longer day,
realizing that running at the sun
is futile beauty.
Kiki Anderson is a writer, a French teacher and bass player
currently residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
