In a Yellow Closet / Alexander Bloom

In a yellow closet, drowsing to-night,
I here relinquish all poetic art,
for it has first relinquished me.
Now writing by this yellow light,
and knowing not where else to start,
or what I’ll come to be,
I tell you I am finished now, for good;
for I have grown, and lived a while,
and grown content to walk in woods
or watch the crocodiles
while never writing anything.
Fond farewell to the muse, I sing!

Alexander Bloom is an adjunct professor and the author of two chapbooks, The Frosted Bums of Denver CO, and Meanderton. He was raised in Miami but has since built his life in New England. His works have recently appeared in AGNI, The Nation, and Granta.