"First Thing" by John Grey

First Thing

The day is waiting
for people to live in it.
It’s like a theater
with rows of empty seats.
Or a vacant house
with chairs, couches, beds,
unoccupied.

The day is
the kind of silence
that encourages talkers.
It’s air
anxious to be breathed.

The day is a mirror
whose glass
can’t reflect
until a face gets here.

John Grey

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Ellipsis…Literature and Art. His latest books, Covert, Memory Outside The Head, and Guest Of Myself, are available through Amazon. Work is upcoming in Washington Square Review and Red Weather.

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