Once there was a city
filled to the brim with light.
One day, the radiance
began to spill over the city wall
and just like that, it disappeared.
In the place where it had stood,
lingered songs of cicadas,
echoes of the light that soaked the soul.
All was gone, all was come.
Daniel Cooper is a husband and father of three children. He lives in Houston, Texas where he teaches political science and Italian at a local community college. In his free time, he loves reading and writes the occasional short story or poem.
