Jonathan Aaron is the author of three poetry collections: Journey to the Lost City; Corridor; and Second Sight. His work has received many honors, and his poems have appeared in Best American Poetry numerous times. He received his PhD from Yale University and is an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing at Emerson College. Aaron lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lightning Time

by Jonathan Aaron

after Jacques Roubaud


To say it’s wrong to say the lightning is pink
is nothing other than to say it’s not the case
the lightning is pink, it’s to say
the lightning isn’t pink, and this isn’t
something one could say
of the proposition “the lightning is pink,” but
a somewhat complicated sentence
about the lightning.

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