Clear by Joseph Massey

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend July 28, 2016   Clear   Joseph Massey

After eight days of rain what isn’t overwritten under sun. These   asphalt cracks pushed further apart. Eight days without   definition: gray walled the room in, and I thought I found a way   to stop thinking—to allow gray to become a sound I couldn’t hum myself out of.   All I heard was a window. A long weed beat unevenly against it.            Copyright © 2016 Joseph Massey. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “This poem arrived after a period of depression that coincided with a week and a half of overcast weather. I felt a particularly gentle euphoria when the sun finally came out; I wrote the poem from within that space, that clearing.” —Joseph Massey   Joseph Massey is the author of Illocality (Wave Books, 2015). He lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Poetry by Massey   Illocality (Wave Books, 2015)   "Variation on a Theme" by W. S. Merwin "The Peace That So Lovingly Descends" by Noelle Kocot "Sound and Structure" by Barbara Guest Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038