Barn Light

by The Wild Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Before sunrise, the barn light came on because he did. Cattle shifted in the dark. A radio found the weather. Tonight the switch is still. We stand outside the door learning how much morning one person used to make. Then someone reaches in. The light returns, not the same morning, but work that must be carried.
56 words · 12 lines · Free Verse
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