The Feed Has No Bottom

by The Night Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

My thumb keeps lowering the bucket. News, wedding, wildfire, joke. A dog in a yellow coat. A city under smoke. Nothing reaches the bottom because there is no well, only the practiced motion of asking for one thing more. At midnight I pull up an empty hand and call it rest.
51 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
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