Broken Church

Laurinda Lind

 
 

No one is
old enough
to read this air
though we
receive it twice

the first time
for the reflection
we can see

the next for
the hieroglyphic
window that
closes over

like the day
of the eclipse
when the delivery
man said Jeez, it's like 3-D
out here.

In the same
way the light
inside is double:

Brightly dark.

Darkly bright.

Broken.

 

Laurinda Lind lives and teaches in northern New York State. Some poetry acceptances and publications have been in Comstock Review, The Cortland Review, Main Street Rag, Off the Coast, and Paterson Literary Review.