Poem: "Glow in the Dark"

This is the freebie for the crowdfunding Creative Jam, inspired by nsfwords.


"Glow in the Dark"


It comes in countless manifestations --

stars stuck to a ceiling, pencils
and erasers, costume jewelry,

figurines of dragons and unicorns,
spraypaint of graffiti that only shows
at night, safety wear for joggers,

T-shirts that mean one thing
in daylight and another in the dark.

Sometimes, in the half-light,
you can see two things at once:
the pink surface of the plastic
and the yellow-green glow
emanating from within it.

Glow in the dark things
remind us that everything
is context and perspective.

There is no "is," only "seems."