Mark Cunningham  nightlightnight Mel Nichols
 

 

 

1-3 a.m.
Shaved hair prickles back its itch.  Somewhere someone is whispering, but here the clock stutters.  When I click off the flashlight, there they are, tables and shoes "vague at first then becoming clearly manifest."  Any fever rekindles.  My eyelids deflate.  Still more galaxies.