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One Light

Brian Looney

    One light glowers, wavers, burns. One light in the black beyond, like an angel in the dark, an unexpected whelp: white-blue-yellow. It has the answers I seek.

    One light’s shadows, a detailed stretch, black on black. One light running, and I smell the sulfur, the cannibalized wick, ashes to ashes. Don’t let it die.

    One light’s dance, footsteps tap, moving deep inside. Cower at its core, in a moment’s peace. Such a silence, such a center. Such a way of moving.

    One light lives, tiny heart, pinprick mine. I cut my hand upon its flame; it echoes softly in the lifeless den. It flickers out, one light gone, and the smoke no longer gives off hope, no longer ejects incense.

    One light laughs through perfect silence, some consuming thing. Ears at reach, cartilage cut, minute birth and bark. Snuff it with a pinch.

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