#MIDDLEBURY
Clear
Joseph Massey
After eight days of rain
what isn’t overwritten
under sun. These
asphalt cracks
pushed further apart.
Eight days without
definition: gray walled
the room in, and I
thought I found a way
to stop thinking – to allow
gray to become a sound
I couldn’t hum myself out of.
All I heard was a window.
A long weed beat
unevenly against it.
About this poem
“This poem arrived after a period of depression that coincided with a week and a half of overcast weather. I felt a particularly gentle euphoria when the sun finally came out; I wrote the poem from within that space, that clearing.” – Joseph Massey
About Joseph Massey
Joseph Massey is the author of “Illocality” (Wave Books, 2015). He lives in Easthampton, Mass.
The Academy of American Poets is a nonprofit, mission-driven organization, whose aim is to make poetry available to a wider audience. Email The Academy at poem-a-day@poets.org.
(c) 2016 Joseph Massey. Originally published in Poem-a-Day, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
