Opening to The Evening | Sojourners

Opening to The Evening

A poem

For Sara

The chain jangles like wind chimes
in the emptiness
as my key springs the padlock open.
Ten more steps
with the tense stillness
that has waited all day in these hallways
following me down the stairs.

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