Winter Constellations
Aug 20th, 2009 | By Heather Ann Schmidt | Category: Poetry | 433 viewsNew Years Eve-
Orion overhead
& leftover snow on my boots,
I close my journal,
leave the house with you
go to the Chinese restaruant
& we sit under soft red light.
Over an iron pot of jasmine & ginger tea,
I realize the 23 years we have
known each other
have brought
us back to the top
of this circle.
We walk under the colored lights
of uptown Birmingham.
People pass into
a liquid blur.
Stopping on the Woodward Bridge,
our feet face
a different direction
than the night you proposed.
I recognize more winter constellations now:
Draco, Eridanus, Andromeda…
You point to the house on the corner
You used to say we’d live there.
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About Heather Ann Schmidt: Heather Ann Schmidt is an adjunct professor at Oakland Community College. She edits tinfoildresses poetry journal and is the publisher for recycled karma press. Her poems can be found in various online and print journals. Her chapbook, Channeling Isadora Duncan, was recently released from Gold Wake Press. She also has a full collection of poems forthcoming from Village Green Press and a chapbook: The Bat's Lovesong: American Haiku, coming out in November from Crisis Chronicles Press. She received her MFA from National University and hopes to begin pursuing her PhD at Union Institute in 2010. You can find her at www.heatherannschmidt.synthasite.com |
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