Like a key
change
terror goes
sliding out of
but echo
into calm
A deer’s sleeping
print
some cardinals
flurry around
Cream streetlights
glare off ice
and city haze
trains an eye
to skim
to startle
at the divine
traffic signal’s
burning face
I pass
This blank
I show
was made
Out of the gone
a little of it
and its palm
I trace
new words in
Daniel Moysaenko is a Ukrainian American poet and recipient of awards and fellowships from Emory University, the Academy of American Poets, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he earned his MFA. Poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. And critical writing has appeared in journals such as Chicago Review, Harvard Review, and Kenyon Review. He holds a PhD in poetry from Florida State University and lives in Ohio's Chagrin Valley.
