Elijah Neumann
late evening
I walk uphill through the resounding
quiet, snow blanketing the road,
under a shifting sky
my breath enters the world.
I carry on, and the hill does end.
The snow will forget I was there,
but the night will follow me. Home,
where the hum of machinery creates
new quiet. This solitary room
welcomes darkness through covered windows.
I stagger down into unsteady sleep,
breath slowing, to night's end.
Bio
Elijah is an undergraduate student majoring in English literature and minoring in Chinese Language and Culture at the University of Michigan. He intends to go to graduate school for comparative literature. In March 2021 he began a poetry column at his school's arts blog, which can be found here: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/ink/tag/the-poetry-corner/