The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang

Author:Mary Jo Bang
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55597-901-0
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

3.

Here’s the boat: watch it move forward.

The motor sounds mechanical.

A light bleeds through the shade.

Look at the night to the right, scissored by lightning

Visible rain is whipping the window

with what feels like fury. Then straight rain with silence,

until the window is opened.

When the window is opened, there is the insistently real

sound of rain. The sound meets the eardrum and becomes

one with the body. It is as if nature is making a statement

that sometimes the outside and inside are one.

Darkness is only a relative

index of many other aspects of the way light behaves.

We know the convulsive reiterative mapping—lub-dub,

lub-dub, lub-dub—has multiple meanings.

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