By Geoffrey G. O’Brien, from Literary Hub. O’Brien is the author of four books of poetry, including, most recently, People on Sunday (Wave Books).

It was just a time of matter, that zone
Between running and stopping
Bred of gas and twilight
Where all speech is eloquent
As the outlines of cars and stores.
Always just twilight, hence speech
Always eloquent, caught between
Massing and dispersal. The oppressed
Possess the eloquence of eloquence
While you others have its…