You Are Always Afraid Poem by Rita Cerniglia

You Are Always Afraid



inside our dark. We spar
like ghostly daggers
till one of us lay bleeding

while the other
(chalk-white and victorious)
smiles and sweats.

Too soon
the neighbor's rooster crow.
The full moon
now overhead
and our shadows vanish.

We drag our dark behind us
like heavy blankets

pulling in the stars
concealing moon.

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Rita Cerniglia

Rita Cerniglia

Los Angeles
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