The telephone blinks in
Dead tones,
While resting in its hard
Covered bed.
The night birds grieve,
Their tears hit the lake puddles,
As the running sink can’t turn off,
I can’t hear the nightingales sing
Me to sleep,
My house sighs in hopelessness.
The steel sky and its black metal clouds,
Shooting pellets of rain, but now
It stops,
I can’t tell if it’s going to reload.
Like starfish, the leaves plaster themselves
On my glasshouse.
The planet turns,
I turn,
The unrest pillow lies next
To me like an old lover,
Yearning for the dark.
Enne Baker is a Montenegrin American poet. Born in Peć, Kosovo, Baker studied at Queens College in New York, where he currently resides.