Drinking in a Blind Room
I'm not writing a poem now,
I'm drinking wine in a dark room.
As always
I am tempted to drag the moon
into this moment or whatever,
make a fuss about something
just like those
who,
not even seeing the moon or its light,
just sit in the dark
spinning webs for dead spiders.
Why drag anything into a dark wine glass,
as if you just caught it
from the corner of a closed eye?
Does imagination care to be hooked
like a fish out of that overfished pond
you call reverie or some other
bull name?
I'm not writing anything
about the past or future,
not even this present,
this no-time has already moved
into another dark room
and has drunk a bottle of wine
I had been saving for later.
Dead poetry comes alive
before you think about it,
and by then it's probably too late.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2025
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