kendall a. bell
The infinite definitions for
darkness
Kendall A. Bell is a native
of Bergen County, NJ who transplanted to Burlington County in early 2001. His
poetry deals with the frustration of everyday life, teetering dangerously on
sanity's edge and the hope of better days. His work has appeared in numerous
print and online journals, most recently Decompression and Scythe. He was
nominated for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net collection in 2007 and
2009. His current chapbook, his eleventh, is called The Forgotten. He is
president and a co-founding member of the Quick And Dirty Poets, founder and
co-editor of the online journal Chantarelle's Notebook and the publisher/editor
of Maverick Duck Press. His website is
www.kendallabell.com
and his chapbooks are available through
www.maverickduckpress.com.
It is the razor sitting uncapped on a shelf.
It is the drawer full of knives, the car's idle.
It is the ache of bones and the will to end.
It is the grinding of teeth, the friction itself.
It is the silence between two bodies,
two rooms apart, two miles in distance.
It is the inevitable letdown.
It is the unrelenting, unforgiving clock on the wall.
It is the uncertainty of trust.
It is the twitch and the gasp.
It is every space between wake and sleep.