Tell Me Shadow

tell me

shadow

how did you

grow so fast into that

inky tattoo

I stepped on

just

this afternoon

 

after all

you were nowhere

when I woke up

early this morning

 

think about it

shadow

everything else

takes such a

long time

to grow

 

apple trees

mountains

me

 

but not you

my guess is

you wait

hovering and sun-silent

in some black riddle

of a place

 

a shape-changing

bobble-dark creature

bursting to plant

yourself into the

wide-open

anything goes

light of day…

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or maybe

into the high-pitched

quiet of

moonlight

where I’ve seen you

tangle up tall trees

fatten up lampposts

stretch passing

silhouettes

 

way

 

up

 

walls

 

tell me

do you wait

lingering

raring to go

inside absolutely

e v e r y t h i n g

 

if so shadow

I have to ask

does that include

 

me

Copyright: from When Poems Fall from the Sky (ZaZaKids Books, 2021) copyright © Zaro Weil 2019, used by permission of the author

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