It's Still Life

Room 100.1

I knock on the door
and enter a cramped, stale room,
an office desk centred,
the sun burning through the window.

Summer heat can annoy the best of us.

A heavy set man rises from the desk,
his shadow fills the space where I stand —
Hello, I say.
I try to sound friendly.

 
 
And then I look at my pen,
expecting more words
to pour from its ink.
Nothing — an empty page.

 
 

Miz Quickly’s 12 July “Open a Book for Inspiration” and Twiglet #134 “Empty Page”. ©️ Misky 2019