Patrick Wright

Cold Dark Matter

Thanks to you I am learning to see again
through a sparseness of particles—

like how I learned to listen
to an eyelid twitch yes and no through a coma.

Darkness I’ve come to realise is a privilege—
known at 4am & sleepless

the sun rising like a scalpel
& turning the room purple.

Somehow, we go on & somehow it never ends
& we go on like a double pendulum.

Perhaps love is like this fixed explosion.
Perhaps you’re nearer now than the word belief.

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Patrick Wright is author of Full Sight Of Her (Black Spring Press, 2020). He has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at the Open University.