After a Remark by Darrell Gray

the dark was big

we knew that as children

a field at night
            the sky stretched out
farther than
we could ever run

            still we left
our fear
beneath the porch light
with relatives

the dark was big

            an empty place to play in
imagining’s storage bin

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Mike James is the associate editor of The Kentucky Review. He has had recent poems published in 5 AM, Old Red Kimono, and Town Center Poetry. New work is forthcoming in Comstock Review, Iodine, and Philadelphia Poets. His most recent book, Past Due Notices: Poems 1991-2011, was published last year by Main Street Rag. His latest book, Elegy in Reverse, was published earlier this year by Aldrich Press.