Radar Data #12
It was in the absence of light
as when near new moon and
no moonlight; as when a part
of a picture is in shadow (as
opposed to a light); as when
in the condition of being
hidden from view, obscure,
or unknown—in concealment,
or else without knowledge
as regards to some particular;
and of the weather, season,
air, sky, sea, etc., characterized
by tempest; in times, events,
circumstances etc. subject to
tempers; inflamed, indicative,
predictive, or symbolical of
strife (harbinger of coming
trouble)—a period of darkness
occurring between one day &
the next during which a place
receives no light from the sun,
and what if it is all behind us?
I no longer fear the rain will
never end, but doubt our ability
to return to what lies passed.
On the radar, a photopresent
scraggle of interference, as if
the data is trying to pretend
something’s out there where
everything is lost.
Copyright © 2013 by Lytton Smith. Used with permission of the author. This poem appeared in Poem-A-Day on October 10, 2013.