© 2000 Glynne MacLean
Published in Niederngasse, The Journal of Winning Poetry - Issue 6 July 2000, Great Plains Publishing & Poems Niederngasse April 2000 issue
Words dropped
into a void
without echo
or response
Fingers grasping
at musty air
catching darkness
retrieving nothing
Sounds gobbled by silence
questions without reverberation
thoughts devoured
by the vanishing point
The chasm detains,
oblivious of time
devastating and
quiet.