for linda stoltzfoos,

kidnapped June 21, 2020

  

you disappear

the first day of summer

hummingbird

 

slant light

black clouds rumble

coyote howls

 

colliding fronts

blow in a storm

moon in mist

 

searching for you

cumulus clouds roll

on thunderheads

prayer circle 

english and amish voices 

calling you home

 

your fireworks

cross a giant

buck moon

 

chimes ring 

prayers for you 

starless nights

 

grain fields ripen

your golden life

forfeits summer

 

body search

four thousand acres

no you

  

gray day

after gray day 

missing you

 

where are you

beyond the clouds

a comet streaking

 

First Published by: Verse-Virtual, Date Published: September 1, 2020   https://www.verse-virtual.org/archives/2020/September/bruck-ingrid-2020-september.html

Republished by: Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog, www.charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com

Date Published: February 9, 2022