Your Shadow

02 Apr 2022

·Jaybird

Your shadow is always with you, you know, yes, even during the nighttime, when, in fact, it thrives and is frequently up to no good amid the unseen blackness. You may find it hard to believe that this benign, ghostly little cloud that walks with you, often announcing your presence, hear ye, hear ye, can revel in such darkness and cloaked in its ebony cape do that which it wouldn’t do in the light, but believe it, there are two sides to all things.

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Jaybird

I am retired, having worked primarily as a librarian, but have done freelance proofreading, copy editing, and book reviewing. I wrote some poetry many years ago, but decided it was bad and stopped, since I had other things to do. For the last ten...

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