Category Archives: Line-a-day Poem

One line per day becomes a long poem after a year!

sneakers, heels, red ballet flats.

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bronze sandals, hiking boots,

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Plum painted toe-nails,

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she sees only shoes and legs.

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From her low deckchair

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imprint on eyes that still weep.

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Fear, hate: skyline ghosts scrape heights,

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with images from hell.

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or omnipresent, overlaid

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Memory, fleeting

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Perhaps has forgotten how.

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so doesn’t listen or hear.

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He never asked her,

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she tells him, she shows him what.

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What she needs from him:

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shroud him, steal him from her.

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tatting, a pattern of holes,

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Memories like lace:

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One theft begets another.

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She should have been warned.

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many words, some of the tune.

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till he no longer recalls

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as an air to hum

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that theft, remembered only

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For ten years, plus two,

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stole for them an anthem: “we.”

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overrode their histories,

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with rhythmic refrain,

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Seduction, its melody

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They met in a song.

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