Issue 5:
Warm
Sharon Kourous
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Phantom
Lovely to be in bed early, and alone
under the electric impersonal blanket’s rough
mimic sensuality, and day collapsed down
into lamplight; wind’s casual riff
jazzing the diesel’s tune. From lazy clouds
the voyeur moon lights window dust
and reminiscence kneads its claws
gently, gently. Memories flicker past
like faces in a train. When does snow
acquire its crystal lines, or how does ice
brittle itself on window glass? I never know
sleep’s instant; and the silver trace
your passing carved upon my waking mind
becomes half-phantom, fading in the night.
~Sharon Kourous
Sharon Kourous, an English teacher, is well published in print and on the web. She has received many awards, and has been nominated several times for the Pushcart. Email.
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This page updated April 23, 2002.