STEVEN RAY SMITH
A total eclipse of the sun
A total eclipse of the sun
requires us to consider that a power
that’s never left us
might
although we know it’s just
a two minute, forty second
night.
a two minute forty second night (FutureCycle Press, 2022), explores a common human question: what does it mean, and feel like, to live in a world of uncertainty while remaining hopeful of a redemptive future? The short poems flow from an initial awareness of temporality, to a desire to fight back against a lack of control, to acceptance of life through action, to a final meditative state of being and moving forward in a precarious world.