Some words for the week

sometimes

in the longest days

I feel like I’m the only

thing

left living

that the crows are just

shadows

in the sky

and then I realize

this sort of thinking

has led us to now

where we drive roads

beneath which

is the forgotten earth

and I come to understand

the inverse is often true

that everything else is alive

but us

that our world of waste

and concrete

is the dead thing

spilled over soil

once blooming

with orange petals

neon in a perfect sunset

now just a parking lot

with the horizon blocked

by some new luxury high-rise

Alexander Shalom Joseph is a writer from Gilpin County. He is a published author. For more information and to subscribe to Alexander’s Newsletter go to alexandershalomjoseph.com