night blindness

By: Terry Jude Miller

darkness approaches

the eye retreats

to back seats of the theater

the world obscures

leaves wind song

and the ghost of blooming

night flowers in its wake

people who know better 

or nothing—sleep—while

the broken wait out the night

in half-dream and opaque images

try to memorize the words

sung by the wind

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Terry Jude Miller is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet from Houston. He received the 2018 Catherine Case Lubbe 

Manuscript Prize for his book, The Drawn Cat’s Dream. His work has been published in the Southern Poetry Anthology, The Lily Poetry Review, The Comstock Review, and The Oakland Review and in scores of other publications.