Icarus Flashback

Icarus Flashback

Cameron Brooks

Too hot to sleep, too dark
to think

straight, I sat up in bed,
tore my t-shirt

from my damp back
and tossed it across the room

when it became a crackling
comet of sparks, arcing
through the darkness

for one radiant instant

(the way He might have
remembered things)
before crashing

to the carpet, mute.

And I thought, for all
the brilliant ways
to squander one’s odds,

it might yet be possible
not to.

---

Cameron Brooks
Poet

Cameron is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and an M.F.A. candidate at Seattle Pacific University. His recent poems have appeared in Poetry East, North Dakota Quarterly, Ad Fontes Journal, St. Katherine Review, Modern Reformation, and elsewhere.

Photography by Allec Gomes