When is dark really dark?

it is dark very dark
when you are standing next to me
and I cannot see you
just your breath is wheezing
in my hair

in out in out

But, mostly, the power was out in 2023. There were moments of light. My poems were published in four TOPS Canadian anthologies and Poetcrit, India:

Ultra Short Poem Competition
The World Around Us
Chapbook Anthology Contest
Across the Universe Contest
The Spring Peepers Poetry Competition.

And I read at the Art Bar:

But it was dark, very dark…