Moment of Clarity
- Moment of Clarity
Then one day, night dawns on you.The stars shooting at you or away,
black holes eating everythingin sight. You see existence
for what it is. You see the gapbetween the world & how
people paint it: dark, distant, therefor the taking. Now take. Moonlight
hitting water, water hitting back. [End Page 187]
Ben Purkert
A former New York Times Fellow, Ben Purkert has published poems in the New Yorker, Agni, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. He’s also the founder of CityShelf, an initiative to support indie bookstores.
