Sober

Rain bends the glass in.

Not the phone ringing.

Not the drip of water

hitting the kitchen sink.

The lights are off & a candle lit.

I try to call the ghosts

of my others for a visit.

Nothing. Small black

crack in the white drywall.

Spiders crawling under my skin.

Charles Kell is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, chosen by Kimiko Hahn for the 2018 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. He teaches in Rhode Island.