About Last Night
Poetry for Rose Tomaszewski and Kaleigh Dogann
11:30 and polar winter. I am happier for this — running around a naked field pausing for downward dog, receding back to a year where a child barreled by another. one had my name, ego down and heart roaring forth in the night, although it was impenetrably dark. under my wrist was a pulse, the first fruit of us smiling and together, decidedly kin. we skipped home, rebuked the darkness with an open window, chit-chatted like they did back when that’s all they did. greeting others through the still open window, I thought, the lines against my eyes are bizarre evidence for the profound and silly things I have enjoyed thoroughly.
©Daniel Barry, 2022






