THE CITY
Long nights, rivers of streaming
Neon darknesses within
The urban grain of voices;
Each footstep another inch into
The forgetful dawn to come,
And the night remembers when
It had just begun.
—from 2022 Rattle Young Poets Anthology
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Why do you like to write poetry?
Mazzy Sleep:
“If not there would / only
Be the image of it / in my head
A lampshade / is there
A pattern, I can see it / the
Animals, the / wait
To be defined / the wait
For the lamp / to be turned on and
So the patterns / dance across the darkness
Each ear each flick / a word
For breath / that really breathes
Otherwise / there is no breath.”
