Night
By Petr Hruška
True darkness is in a child’s bedroom. Deep black.
Elsewhere there’s just a meager, watery twilight, in which
everything, in the end, acquires a humiliating distinctness.
Copyright Credit: Petr Hruška, "Night" from Everything Indicates: Selected Poems, translated by Jonathan Bolton. Copyright © 2023 by Petr Hruška. Reprinted by permission of Blue Diode Press.
Source: Everything Indicates: Selected Poems, translated by Jonathan Bolton. (Blue Diode Press, 2023)