Today's poem is by Joshua Garcia

I've Been Feeling a Lot Like an Edward Hopper Painting Lately
       

as if it's always that time of day when everything stills
and i am nearly as naked as the light
i stand at a window and wonder if it is dark enough yet
for my shadow to be cast onto the street
and touch each streetlamp on like a hand's halfhearted caress of a piano's keys
though i have stopped drinking     the air tastes like wine
i bend over     pose myself like a woman     take pictures to prove
no one else is in the room     a book     a folded bed sheet
i pick these up to test the weight of my solitude
before great love comes great emptiness     the streets fill with a fragrant silence
and breath ripples out from a central point
as if from a great distance         i am a sexual being           a proclamation or a prayer
hard above the earth     my shoulders tone their empty bells
outside there are only more windows     you can hear the ringing from far off
announcing a wedding     a death     or another hour     more time
my loneliness is not unique     but it is the most precious thing to me

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