After Hours

empty office building
all
the lights still on

each floor the
angle of the
ceiling within more extreme

fluorescent panels there
as, rectangular as the
windows they are seen through

everything is
terrible
everything is terrible

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Author: Renee Newlon

I am a Turkish American writer and photographer. I work in short-form prose, poetic fragments, and photography. I don’t photograph the event; I photograph the moment after the event. A few things that stay with me: Plato’s Cave, Oberg’s Culture Shock, and Beethoven’s Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours. My greatest teacher was my college philosophy professor, Sister Jane Sullivan, who taught me how to think and how to see.

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