Suspended

hidden
somewhere within
black and white organ keys
a Great Amen echoing the
last chord


January

Twilit
January,
with heavy, drooping eyelids,
descends the frigid stairwell of
winter.

("January" was originally published in Black Creek Review, 1999)

Return to the front page of this issue:   Amaze   Vol. 2, No. 2   Fall & Winter, 2003.
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These poems are Copyright © 2003 by Pearl Mary Wilshaw.