night void message #507
everyone is swimming
in deep underground caverns
everyone is wearing
a wet bathing suit
except me
I can’t find you
a woman says she can help
in her office
she shows me
an old-fashioned typewriter
that morphs into
a wardrobe
made of stained glass
she invites me
to step inside
night void message #547
waking you
asleep in a chair
are you the you that is you?
night void message #771
a thing
eight feet tall
on two legs
drops from the trees
a creature
from a movie
wrapped in thick
soiled gauze strips
am I afraid?
the thing
bounds away
into the darkness
night void message #833
in high school
watching
football practice
in the rain
wondering
whether I should join
my friends
on the field
I walk away
into the rain
night void message #331
writing a poem
lirios
a personal sky
days & leaves
no other residue
Edward Smallfield is the author of to whom it may concern, equinox, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (a book-length collaboration with Doug MacPherson), and The Pleasures of C. He is also the author of five chapbooks, mostly recently sargasso, from Dancing Girl Press. His poems have appeared in Barcelona INK, Denver Quarterly, e-poema.eu, Five Fingers Review, New American Writing, Páginas Rojas, talking about strawberries all the time, Touch the Donkey, where is the river: a poetry experiment, and many other magazines and websites. He is a coeditor at parentheses and at Apogee Press. He has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi, Paou, Paros, and Sofia, and lives in Barcelona with his wife, the poet Valerie Coulton.