A Trick Of The Light
Poem about a woman flown away
Mar 1, 2023
Some nights I see her,
others she slips past me
through the cracks,
out of my reach.
She runs to me
in my sleep, and I wake up
to find her flown away.
I blink once, twice: almost there!
And then — her shape is gone;
the woman that was so real to me,
just a trick of the light.
Sometimes I wonder
if she was ever in the world at all.
