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Working: Vol. 5, No. 3 - Issue 19 Autumn 2026

Kill the Watchers in the Night, no. 3:
​Kill the Watchers in the Night​
silent! verse

Issue 19
And when grief comes
in her euphoric dress
 
: resist dread. Life has given you
gray
 
lemons but you shall
resist the infinite “                ”
 
—fold yourself into the opposite angle
from which it descends.
 
Perfect violence and
perform solitude
 
and do it (imperfectly)
. Resist dread
 
. And when your sorrow drives south
 
. Kill the watchers in the night.

SAMUEL BLAKELY is from Indiana. He studied Writing, Humanities, and Philosophy at university but currently waits tables. He dreams of becoming the greatest American writer of the 21st century. Right now, you can find him at his parents’ house reading Carter’s Work, For the Night is Coming or Aurelius’s Meditations.

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