Tall buildings cast overlapping shadows.
It’s night long before nighttime.
Last of the commuters catch their train, their bus.
Garages empty out.
The few inner city dwellers
lock and latch the doors
of their small fortresses.
At street level,
two men approach each other.
It’s dark. Identities are smudged.
Is it? No it can’t be?
Wasn’t he the one who… ?
And didn’t he…?
They nod as they pass –
recognition or just acknowledgment
that there’s no other in this world –
neither gives an indication.
Each hears footsteps
on the concrete sidewalk,
softer and softer,
farther and farther away.
Then all would be silent
if it weren’t for themselves.
But they don’t feel responsible,
just alone.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Published in Nebo, Euphony, Columbia Review, Leading Edge, Poetry East and Midwest Quarterly.
Kara Goughnour is a writer and documentarian living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are the author of “Mixed Tapes,” forthcoming in the Ghost City Press Summer 2019 Micro-Chap Series. They are the recipient of the 2018 Gerald Stern Poetry Award, and have work published or forthcoming in The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Third Point Press, and over forty others. Follow them on Twitter and Instagram 
Joe Albanese is a writer from New Jersey. His work can be found in publications across the U.S. and in ten other countries. Joe’s novel, Caina (Mockingbird Lane Press), and his novella, Smash and Grab (Books to Go Now), were both published in 2018.
Susan Richardson is living, writing and going blind in Hollywood. Much of her work focuses on her experiences as a partially sighted woman in a sprawling urban environment. Her work has been published in Free Lunch, The Old Red Kimono, Stepping Stones Magazine, Wildflower Muse, The Furious Gazelle, The Hungry Chimera, Sheila–Na- Gig and Chantarelle’s Notebook. In addition to poetry and creative non-fiction, she writes a blog called “Stories from the Edge of Blindness”.
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