Vespers

Stephen Kuusisto, Letters to Borges

I’ve just a little time left,

Soon the bell will ring

Calling the mind to rest,

Twilight soul, weary,

It’s gentleness and fight

Worn thin

Like a refugee’s scarf.

Author: skuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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