Maui dark is darker than most. It is all you see is sea dark.

3am Maui dark out of these new windows

is one white light on the horizon dark,

it’s even the pigs must be sleeping dark,

even the fish aren’t swimming dark,

even mynah have nothing to chatter about dark,

even the angriest people are resting dark,

even the most worried are calm dark… maybe.

 

I’ve known landlocked darks

mountain darks

suburb darks

rural darks

city (not so) darks.

They have a close your eyesness about them,

an it’s night time so do nighttime things about them.

They have a hidingness about them

and those are good darks I suppose for some

but this dark, this Maui dark

is putter around the house dark.

It is I don’t miss you this time of morning anymore dark.

It is no one will notice if I cry right now dark.

It is oceans away from anyone else dark.

 

There’s a lot of room to stub your toe

in this kind of dark

in this Maui kind of dark.

There’s even more room

to adjust your eyes, and see.

 

Elizabeth Fellows

6/27/2020, 3am