by Cindy Hunter Morgan
Because it is not here it is eternal
how else to explain the absence
of the moon in the afternoon
the disappearance of loons
in September the silence
when I wake at night that time
between the last sound
of the last frog and the first
sound of the first ice
where does anything go except
into forever my grandmother
comes to me at night is always
waiting at the end of the hallway
in a house that is not there
by the heavy black-corded telephone
in the nook by the closet
where her jacket still hangs
Cindy Hunter Morgan is a poet, teacher and co-founder of Filmetry: A Festival of Film and Poetry. “Harborless,” her book of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks, was named a 2018 Michigan Notable Book and won the 2017 Moveen Award in poetry. “The Eternal Return” appears in her new book, “Far Company” (Wayne State University Press, 2022).
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