hard light
by definition
she is an absence
little cut-out girl
with no lucent
light the window
withholds natural
unforgiving
as angle of view
alone
blue-black form
purposeful
a shadow’s silhouette
if removed would she
be missed if kept
would she be missed
transcription
of the unnamed
if lit named If
would she become
a focal figure
muddy contrast
origin fixed
First appeared in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
