Up Late by Nick Laird

Author:Nick Laird
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

The eye adjusts, even to darkness,

even to the presence of what overwhelms us,

and as I make my way from the bed to the study

the soles of my feet on the carpet warp it

as any fabric made of this space-time will distort

beneath the force of a large object – and my father,

as it happens, is gigantic – and if you thought

an understanding could be reached, you are wrong

for it could not.

The goldfish pilots the light of itself

through a ten-gallon darkness and I keep watch

as the large hand of the clock covers the small

and leaves it behind to the weak approximation

I sit here in and finish writing.

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