The City of Stars

The solar array sets upon the sound.
In reflecting lights
of a thousand windows,
in blue, green, and fire,
cocktail glasses shimmer,
jokes spill, hearts break.
From our balcony, we will
toast the searing jets,
your promotion, or perhaps mine,
or our friends, getting engaged, at last.
Even time flashes and falls here,
in a twilight sigh.

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 short fiction collection The Plague Confessor is available at her online store! megsmithwriter.com

Her most recent poetry books, Pretty Green Thorns, Night's Island, This Scarlet Dancing and Dear Deepest Ghost, are available on Amazon.

Find more by Meg Smith in the Author Index.