Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies
after Edgar Martins
There’s a thin blue line
sprayed vertically on the wall
and a film of grey dust on the floor.
A square shadow of shade
turns sand a darker yellow,
and there’s a distant light in the forest
ignored by the birds
rising into the faded sky
and a driver walking away from his car
parked by the covered road sign
near the abandoned raised highway
above a permanently closed café.
None of this signifies anything,
they are just part of the world’s emptiness
which small waves in the lake wash away.
Rupert Loydell is the editor of Stride magazine, a contributing editor to intenrational times, and Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University. Shearsman have just published his new book The Return of the Man Who Has Everything, which continues his exploration of post-confessional narrative poetry.