O:JA&L Poetry: All forms & styles
Andrew Furst
wait
1
huddled around,
mimicking the ellipses of the planets.
eyes trained
on the fire.
a surrogate of
the stiffening sun
we are waiting.
2
we ache to reach the constellations,
blind to the cold death of it.
we wait,
like the diseased
believing there is a cure.
all of us.
waiting.
3
in seconds, in minutes,
decades and so on,
we measure our constructions,
our lethargy, and age.
but we do not circle the sun
like rocks and dust.
we reckon with the wait.
About the writer:
Andrew Furst is a poet, artist, author, photographer, musician, and a technologist. His poetry has appeared in Sandy River Review, Backchannels Journal, Moria, and Superpresent Magazine, amongst others. His art has been featured in the Emerson Review and Mud Season Review.
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