I read somewhere that all the sunlight
smacking the earth
at any moment
weighs as much
as a cruise ship,
which makes me
wonder
how much the darkness
in this conversation
with you
must weigh:
Eight semis stacked in a pyramid
and balanced on a teacup?
The Empire State Building
sopping wet?
All the dirt in Oklahoma?
Or maybe a cruise ship
of its own,
with doe-eyed passengers
waving
dumbly from the deck
as they sail obviously off
to kiss the sullen ice-berg.
“Benjamin Myers’ first book, Elegy for Trains, was published in 2010 by Village Books Press and won the Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in, or are forthcoming in, Measure, The Chiron Review, The New Plains Review, Ruminate, Christianity and Literature, The Mayo Review, and other journals. His work has previously appeared online at poetrybay, The Pedestal Magazine, and Red Lion Square. With a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, Myers teaches writing and literature at Oklahoma Baptist University. He blogs at www.myerspoetry.blogspot.com.”
