“Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant,” by Jeneva Stone (Poetry ’07)

“Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant,” a found poem by poetry alum Jeneva Stone, was recently featured in Room. Read an excerpt below:

Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant

could you bring the light
“inside the body”?

(how may I
find the Light
in the midst of)

supposing we hit
the body
with a tremendous —

(darkness
of my heart,
which is so
great)

whether it’s
ultraviolet or just
very powerful light —

supposing
you brought
the light

(by its discovering
and warring
against
the darkness)

inside the body

Read the rest of this poem here: http://www.analytic-room.com/poems/sunlight-is-the-best-disinfectant-jeneva-stone/