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Keeping the Darkness Out

Kirby Wright

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How fast the sun arrives
And disappears, its arc

Belongs to yesterday
As whiskey and cigarettes

Future forward.
The night turns to lust

To keep the darkness out.
We are addicted to

The warmth of bodies
Genuflecting bedposts,

Praying we survive
The heat of battle

Until light brings
A cold tomorrow.

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Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright's third play, Rag of Man, was performed at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre on February 22nd, 2017. His first screenplay is a Semi-Finalist in the 2017 Los Angeles CineFest Film Festival. He is working on a hybrid form between the screenplay and the stage play.

Author: Kirby Wright Tags: poetry Category: Poetry April 14, 2014

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  1. Nikki Wilkinson says

    November 13, 2014 at 4:05 pm

    This has a haunting, mystical quality, one that peels back the surface layer of living to peer inside. The ‘cold tomorrow’ ending couplet introduces the light of reality after a feverish night of lovemaking?

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