Nyctalopia

Posted on by Jamie Dedes

I couldn’t
see
the clouds

or the way
time was
climbing

one hungry
rung
after another

the way
light strung
on attic beams

clings to
an unhinged
moon

and her
night-blinded
visions

of you

– Christi Moon

© Christi Moon, All rights reserved

Author:

Jamie Dedes is a Lebanese-American poet and free-lance writer. She is the founder and curator of The Poet by Day, info hub for poets and writers, and the founder of The Bardo Group, publishers of The BeZine, of which she was the founding editor and currently a co-manager editor with Michael Dickel. Ms. Dedes is the Poet Laureate of Womawords Press 2020 and U.S associate to that press as well. Her debut collection, "The Damask Garden," is due out fall 2020 from Blue Dolphin Press.

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