Bright Moments
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All night long the capitol glows. The Day-Glo day all night long. Day-Glo makes the capitol glow makes the capitol glow just like the globe. To break dawn to break dawn a bridge to cross to break dawn. All night long all night long the Day-Glo day all night long. Orange Blaze makes the poster glow makes the poster glow just like the globe. Between Maryland and Virginia a bridge to cross between Maryland and Virginia a web of wards. The Day-Glo day all night long a bridge to cross to break dawn. To break dawn to break dawn home rule a bridge to cross all night long. Lock this: the pocket is the sound of the capitol and the sound of the capitol is a school without walls. A Day-Glo globe all night long. A Day-Glo poster postering dawn. The light from the posters lasts longer than the shows. A bridge to cross a percussive map home. A short conversation between first gear and dawn. A web of wards a severed map home. Beneath the monuments a baptist chipboard of noise. Behind the monuments a school without walls. Formerly ten miles per side formerly ten miles per side. Day-Glo makes the darkness glow makes the darkness glow just like the globe. A hill and a river between Maryland and Virginia between Maryland and Virginia a hill and a river. Song of The District in bits and pieces, a stapled splatter, proper utensils. Da dee dee dee Da cee cee cee. A short conversation between hill and bottom. All the ugly people in the house be quiet. A web of wards a severed map home.
Song of the District in bits and pieces, sirens and synthesizers, technical difficulties. Da dee dee dee Da cee cee cee. All fat men free before ten pm. Saturn Yellow makes the poster glow makes the poster glow just like the globe. Security to the middle of the pocket between Maryland and Virginia. A y-shaped river, lost in the city, the staple gun's silver clip of unstitched bridges. Security to the middle of the pocket between Maryland and Virginia. Work youngin' work all week and pocket on the weekend. Before a poster disappears it works all week and pockets the weekend. Offset and screened. Twenty two by thirty three all week and pocket the weekdays. Before a pocket disappears it works all week and posters the weekend. Offset and screened. Twenty two by thirty three all week and pocket the weekend. All night long to poster dawn. Work youngin'. The Day-Glo day stapling home. Splotches of do-it fluid flourescence, lost curfews and white marble. The light from the posters lasts longer than the shows. Welcome to Washington, a capitol city, the nation's capitol. To glow [End Page 903] national to glow national hot pink and lavender to go national. Day-Glo makes the capitol glow makes the capitol glow just like the globe. The Day-Glo day all night long. All night long all night long. Signal Green makes The Beltway glow makes The Beltway just like go-go. The money beltway around Washington won't let glow go won't let go-go glow national. To go national to go national a lightening bolt of trouble to go national. Welcome to Washington, a capitol city, the nation's capitol, already national. All the ugly people in the house
Thomas Sayers Ellis, one of the founders of the Dark Room Collective, is an associate professor of English at Case Western University, where he teaches courses in creative writing and African-American literature. His first volume of poetry, The Maverick Room, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2005. He is also author of the chapbook The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press, 2001), one of the three poets collected in the anthology, Take Three (Graywolf Press, 1996), and co-editor of On the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists (New Cambridge Press, 1994). He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
