Daily promise of blankness
Scraping against whiteness
Not loneliness but loneliness
The house is not the room is not the bed is not the moment is not
Cold nestling in after
My body did not push but laid over draped over
the equations of heat transfer are able to calculate the succession of moments accurately to a
reference
I already know that in the end we believe that their cannot be loss
I’m the end my mother reiterated that she was not religious
I wonder why no one ever told us that no matter what we believe we believe
This is not even actually paper
J. Parker Marvin is a data analyst working in the semiconductor industry and living in Saitama, Japan. Parker’s poems have been published most recently in Mantis Poetry, Levitate, and Second Factory. Parker’s collection Postlude to the End of is forthcoming in Fall 2024 from April Gloaming.