I was to meet the sun at exactly 8.56 AM. For the first time. Aware of the honor, I didn’t want to be late. I set out early. The journey was long, so I rushed. The sun waited at the intersection of a deserted road. I watched it for a long time, without a blink. I got used to its shining. The orange light cut through my skull. I could not take my eyes from it. Then, all became blurred.

And now, six suns look at me permanently.

They shine, just for me. I know that. One sun alone is enough to light the world, but it doesn’t belong to me.

Six suns shine for me permanently. They reveal my absence to the world.

Phillip John Usher is the founding editor of Annetna Nepo ( www.annetnanepo.com/ ) a print and on-line poetry review. He earned his PhD in French from Harvard University and currently teaches at Brooklyn College ( City University of New York). He has also translated “Dans les impasses du monde” (No through world) by Denis Emorine ( Ravenna Press, USA, 2004) and various other texts (poems, short stories) by the same author