Midnight

Published in Z Publishing House’s Maryland’s Best Emerging Poets 2018 anthology

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Midnight

I hope you remember me

in the midnights of yourself,

in the ten half-moons that

cupped my face and confessed

your love for me on the

last Sunday in April.

 

How unpleasant it has been,

to only be seen by you when

the Sun has set and Nyx has

stained your vision with her poison.

 

Even at our best, it was always

with the help of another woman

that you saw my worth,

however temporarily.

 

I am beautiful too,

you know,

in the vulnerable streams of

daylight, the muted mixture of

sunshine particles and

exhaled pixie dust.

 

I am magic—

a witch, a deity, and a minx,

yanking oceans with the

center of my own gravity,

undoing the shackles you have

clasped around my ankles,

just because I can.