CCW Finalist, Poetry (after Edward Hopper) tonight I am the woman with a knife alone afraid wanting to kill the pain . . . trying to cross over that great empty space where even my shadow extends itself behind me determined to be . . . something grizzly with a snout . . . and fangs what used to be the corner drugstore casts an ever-lengthening beam and tonight refuses to be transformed into anything but what it is indivisible darkness Jeannine Tupper |