The Vault
Little wave
in thought.
Blank architecture
that holds me.
This is a little psalm
in the moon-
struck snow.
Thank you,
for I haven’t been
patient as promised.
Thank you,
for the desperate
Hopper-esque light.
There is so little
to hold, I said
as I held it. Each
bloom
of strength
that entered
my hands.
Copyright © 2021 by Andrés Cerpa. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on May 18, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.