no one tells you
that shadows shift on concrete
like light on water,
that darkness reverberates black tides
leading, leaning, misleading,
that to rely on these selves
is to have faith in illusion,
& it may as well be god lying
faceless on the sidewalk,
leading, leaning, misleading.
perhaps we'd see more
if we hit concrete instead of
toying with translucence.
perhaps eyes don't belong
imbedded in cement,
but higher, closer, higher.
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Annette Covrigaru is a gay/bigender American-Israeli writer based in Brooklyn, N.Y. They were a Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices nonfiction fellow and writer-in-residence in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in TQ Review, Stitch, Emerge, Cosmonauts Avenue and Entropy. Annette is currently completing a master’s degree in Holocaust Studies through the University of Haifa.
"no one tells you" by Annette Covrigaru
in Poetry