Hand-cut collage of Alice in Wonderland facing a dancing skeleton with a drumstick, on a black background with repeated screaming skull faces and clipped text lines about light, concrete, and metal scraping.

Sodium Zone

After the art gallery and the museum,

past the light’s edge and into a hush,

the rough concrete path carries me.

Ahead, the bridge stands,

its outer arch dark;

its under-arch held in the orange hum of a sodium light.

On the bricks lies a stained mattress;

a tent sags.

The river laps at algae-slick rocks.

The light cuts.

Metal scrapes on concrete.

Light returns.

The walls are bare.

While the mosquitoes whine

and the rank air lifts from the rocks,

I do not move.

The light holds.


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