Poetry Porch: Poetry

 

BELOW GROUND LEVEL
By Robert K. Johnson

Taking a subway seat,
the only thing I see

is you, hidden —
except for an eye slit —

from head to shoes in five feet
of shapeless black;

why is it I feel you have come
not from a distant country

but from somewhere
                      deep inside me.


Copyright © 2016 by Robert K. Johnson.