powering down
the Kindle
powered down
in the middle
of an okay
book that
was starting
to be good
& so now
I'm waiting
for a recharge
which is why
I was reading
in the first place—
oh the irony
of decompression
dependent on
the machine:
better to scratch
& ink the page
in the bright
light of day
than squint
at fading pixels
in the dying
of the night