~ Delta Poetry Review ~

Ronald Geigle

Late Light

Light in the late part of day arrives at dirty angles,

slicking the underside of clouds, squeezing earth.

Don’t trust it, this light.

It tricks you.

Makes you seem larger than you are.

It’s a love affair gone flat.

A detour run out of promises.

Laugh at it.

Swing it over your head.

Throw it into the sea.

Remember,

fences grow tall in this light

and church spires find you.

In the worst of late light, close your eyes—

not to sleep, but to wait. 

Ronald Geigle is a writer and poet living in Virginia. His work has been published in the Banyan Review, Tilted House Review, Litbreak Magazine, and forthcoming in Alternating Current. He is the author of The Woods, a novel set in the Pacific Northwest during the waning years of the Great Depression. ronaldgeigle.com