Friday, July 26, 2024

THE TRAGIC HERO SOLILOQUIZES

Not infrequently, there are evenings
when every light 
is green 

on the bleary 
return-trip 
from the place I was meant to be—

which is a way I have
of knowing 
that I'm a whole universe,

but I always, 
impossibly, seem to be trapped 
inside another universe.