Traveling

Like streetlights
still lit
past dawn,
the dead
stare at us
from the framed
photographs.

You may say otherwise,
but there they are,
still here
traveling
continuously
backwards
without a sound
further and further
into the past.

Credit

Author

Malena Mörling

Malena Mörling, a Swedish American poet and translator, was born in Stockholm in 1965 and raised in southern Sweden. She earned a BA from Hampshire College in 1988, an MA from New York University in 1992, and an MFA from the University of Iowa.

Date Published

01/01/2006