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Carl James Grindley
carl.grindley@snet.net
The tumult of it all is making
Those around you
Sick—on the monitor, the drifting
Cosmos shifts from black
To gray in unbelievable
Striations and you in the middle of it all—
By God, the universe must love
You, but tethered to it as to
Me on the other side of the screen,
You are in such profound blackness
And silence that I cannot help but hold
My breath.
The world is indeed a distant planet.
About the Author
Carl James Grindley grew up on an island off the West Coast of Canada, and studied in the US and Europe. He has taught creative writing at Yale University, and works at The City University of New York. His book Icon was published in 2008 by No Record Press. He has recent work inApocrypha & Abstractions, Anemone Sidecar, and The Moon Milk Review. Grindley is a founding editor of The South Bronx Review. His son, Jack, spent 11 days in Yale's NICU in 2007.
Published: November 19, 2011