red booth
review


issue 11n
Looking

we took walks
in moonlight
in another time

he and I 
we wished on stars 
that had long ago died

we never spoke of the past

we put it in a dusty room
hid it under sheets
and blocked the door

but there it is
like a mud brick
baked under the sun

now we cannot look away
we look at it
and at each other

and we can find nothing to say


- Summer Lopez
 
  

Summer grew up in Southern California. She now lives in Ghana, and has had her work published previously in California Quarterly.
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