ANCHORITIC (Monday Poem)

by Joseph Massey


Listening to wind
dislodge objects
in the dark around
my room, I want
to think thinking
is enough to locate
a world, but it isn't.
It isn't this one.
It isn't this world,
weather.


from Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer & Lynn Melnick, 2015, Viking