Before And After, Or At The Same Time

By: David Zaza

The car flies through time

as much as it does the sky

toward the house

The house remembers

it burned only after

the car came crashing in

The landscape disappears

as so many landscapes do

to smears of coal

Though not possible

there are no people in the car

nor in the house

From here the light is light

and the shadows harsh

in stark contrast

From now on time is still

even though the car flies

and house burns

Sun burns too up in its sky

as earth burns too

here on earth

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David Zaza lives in New York, where he runs a design studio specializing in arts publications. His poetry has been pub-lished in print and digital magazines, including Medusa’s Laugh, The Perch, and Novus, among others. Recent multidis-ciplinary projects include GoldbergPoems.com, an audio project which presents his recited poetry with piano accompani-ment; and [unreliable], a poetry/drawing collaboration with visual artist Mark Fox.