Dream After a Loss

09 Jan 2021

I heard you purring beside me as you breathed in and out and felt your velvet stroke on my skin your hand warm in the chilly night. I studied the outlines of your face and reached to touch you but nothing was there except darkness and the chill.

Jaybird

I am retired, having worked primarily as a librarian, but have done freelance proofreading, copy editing, and book reviewing. I wrote some poetry many years ago, but decided it was bad and stopped, since I had other things to do. For the last ten...

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