Dusk
Transparent green as if a leafdissolves, a glow. Sun meltsthe tree. Day lightlime, high in a Linden, leaf-spiritstwinkle and jitter. I think of my lovein the machine's cavern whilelight from somewhere scans his body.Let the spot be a tiny overflow, a drop of leaf-light.Let it be a transparency, a scar one cannot feel,a photograph of a spotted owl, nothingdarker. The sun bends the fruit branches.Green splashes of water. One morning,the leaves lit up at the edge of our window.We watched them splash a while.Dusk now and light drains from the sky.
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Copyright © 2019 by Nancy Bryan
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Nancy Bryan’s poems are forthcoming in various journals, including Mudfish, Gravel, and Comstock Review. Nancy has taught writing for many years in the English department at Brookdale Community College and currently teaches poetry and memoir writing in their Continuing Education department. She lives in Fair Haven, New Jersey.
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