Day After
- Day After
The light will change the dayafter. Cars will follow
the road, paintby number, curving left,
curving right between the lines.The stars
stay over the housewhen you’re inside, over
the clouds when you’re out.Look. It is going
to rain. Everythingwill shine again.
And you there breathingabove this book
will close itand rise into your life. [End Page 172]
Wyatt Townley
Wyatt Townley, former Poet Laureate of Kansas, is the author of The Afterlives of Trees (Woodley Press, 2011).
