Dan Rodriguez
will be there.
The next time I read
in some dark-beautiful club
and I hear a shutter click.
Year after year catching stars
falling
in his black and magic
silver net
the whole time silently letting
us believe
we were the show
in my mind
he never rests
like the word aperture
from the Ancient Greek
meaning,
“the eye of genius”,
or in Aramaic, “the lens
of God is terrible
and wide”. Giving, I never heard him
ask for anything
the way the night
provides cover to the sun and succor
for the rest.
– Paul Koniecki