Waning Gibbous

Each of us
moves
in a measure of shadow.
We can know ourselves
as that shadow ebbs
within and without.
Here, it shimmers
across
the gray map
of all we have cast
on that bright plain—
mountains, seas,
love songs.
Each, like the light
that falls,
bids an unspoken
return.

Meg Smith is a poet, writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass. Her poems have appeared in The Cafe Review, Pudding, Poetry Bay, The Horror Zine, Silver Blade, Raven Cage, The Blue Hour Anthology, and many more. Her most recent poetry books, This Scarlet Dancing and Dear Deepest Ghost, are available on Amazon. She welcomes visits to megsmithwriter.net.

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