A friend of minewith autism
describes his feelings as paleyellow, then electric
pink. He describesoppression as shopping
malls: all those lightsoverwhelming as the same
-ness of days now, fluorescentwith change. Today, I think
he might be teaching mehow to live
without you. Morning fallsblue across the river,
the fields. A white crossdrawn by a street
-light in the snow is notwhere I last saw you
before the snow wasirrevocable
but where I left myselfnear the mouth of god
to blood that river,to cobalt that sky.
Chelsea Dingman is the author of Thaw (University of Georgia Press, 2017), which was selected by Allison Joseph as a winner of the National Poetry Series.
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