ices over. Leafless. Listless. Heaven only an idea scraping out its breath. Such cloudy
disappearances. Pentimento, palimpsest. The fade of you still lingers. Blue air splinters white.
Was ever-after a wish, once upon a lie? Here again I miss, I wake. The Sky Ungained by footfall.
Morning cracks, reseals itself in ice. Lacework scars the windows, scribbled maps derange the
light.
Titles and italics from Emily Dickinson
Hadara Bar-Nadav’s book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007) won the Margie Book Prize. Her chapbook Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press, 2010) won the Midwest Poets Series Award. Recent publications appear in American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. www.HadaraBarnadav.com
