Sky Saw

There’s an eclipse.
No one cares about it.

What would I do if
Genocide ceased.
I have answered this question differently
in the form of a dream
that the city had disappeared
into a sinkhole–the results of
the abuse of excommunication
And relic mongers.
The rarity of objects, and emotions,
is an imprisonment of what is
indebted to us forever.
We still refuse to confirm
this is the empty space without law,
without any mercy–it is no more than
a vacant lot in the sky, a prospect
for history’s winners.

Stephen Baron is a technical documentation writer currently living in New York City with his wife and 3 daughters. He has previously won the Egan Award for Short Fiction at Manhattan College and is currently working on his first novel-length book. Read other articles by Stephen.