5.19.2023 – no clocks no shadows

no clocks no shadows
dawn dusk neither light nor dark
outside door no door

There are
No clocks on the wall,
And no time,
No shadows that move
From dawn to dusk
Across the floor.
There is neither light
Nor dark
Outside the door.

There is no door!

Selected poems of Langston Hughes
by Langston Hughes, 1990, Vintage Books

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