In response to “Light Painting 012-2,” Call No. 38.

Instead
Ben Rose

I wish I could see you
spinning like yarn,
splicing toward infinity
and learning the art of ease

I hear the pins of your breath,
junipers haunting the hallways
of a home I never knew existed,
a blue bowl burning against your fingers

“Nothing has ever moved me like she does.”

I am in four places at once,
yet none of them the sun -
wringing hands of unearned sweat
and stripping silence from the doors

Instead
green is a place I know only in my eyes
as love tinges ambition
like so many drops of unspilled blood

Ben Rose is an artist, photographer, writer and consultant. He has a M.Sci in Lighting from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center and a B.A. in Art & Film History from Sarah Lawrence College. He is the founder and president of EYE/I Creative.