On turning on my light in Managua

Brooke Vezino, University of Arizona, MS4

waiting in
all the way alone
almost airless
yet screaming
loud (a)
thousand years
of blindness
esperamos
para la luz

un ratito
flash of almost lightening
hope immediately
sucked back into the
blue black vacuum
no lightbreath

again flash
hope
oh(ahhh)

fluorescent home
space.