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Turning up the volume on my rain app to drown out the rain


My yard's motion-activated light is trolling me; nobody wants to
be winked at when they're trying to sleep.

I’m emotion-activated, I say lightly when what I really mean is:
how can we be expected to stay in our bodies

when our chests are all thrum and polyester billow? Rain on a
tent. Choose a scientist at random and hold it close;

it can be your support scientist, tonight, anytime. Copernicus. On.
Copernicus. Off. Copernicus. On. Copernicus,

convince me I am the earth and not the sun

so I might turn over and get to sleep.


Ewen Glass (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and a body of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared in the likes of Okay Donkey, Maudlin House, HAD, Poetry Scotland and One Art. Bluesky/X/IG: @ewenglass.