Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker

Imagining My Neighbor

by Loretta Diane Walker

published on Poem-a-Day, April 08, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets

Now that night has fallen like a broken cart,he cups his ear against the old red radio, attempting to tune out the streamof unintelligible street verbiage leaking thru the window.

Earlier, he opened all the blinds,

but left the front door closed.Why do we seal off those placesflooding the greater light?

I imagine in the quiet cottage of his brainthe sepia of th...