Ali Znaidi (TUN) - Darkness

Darkness

 

A poorly lit room.

Lingering dimness.

Darkness is stretching

its hands—

a playground for

nightmarish memories.

I pour them

in an empty glass.

Darkness still winks

emanating a dim light

like a flint.

Darkness is a big black glass.

We just drink in its void,

waiting for rescue

from a flint that

skates the silky skin

of the somber night.

 

Ali Znaidi lives in Redeyef, Tunisia where he teaches English at Tunisian public secondary school. His work has appeared in The Camel Saloon, phantom kangaroo, BoySlut, The Rusty Nail, Yes,Poetry, the fib review, Ink Sweat and Tears, Mad Swirl, Red Fez, & other ezines. His debut poetry chapbook Experimental Ruminations was published in September 2012 by Fowlpox Press (Canada). He also writes flash fiction for the Six Sentence Social Network—http://sixsentences.ning.com/profile/AliZnaidi.