THE MORNING YOU LEFT
The morning you left the kitchen light was on. Some phantom sound
led me to believe you were still here—making coffee in the small
kitchen, bothering with the news.
led me to believe you were still here—making coffee in the small
kitchen, bothering with the news.
I called out your name. Your side of the bed was cold.
B. L. Bruce is an award-winning poet and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee living and writing along the California coast. Her work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, magazines, and literary publications, with poetry most recently appearing in The Lakeshore Review, Red Wolf Journal, Bivouac Magazine, The Sunlight Press, Riverstone Literary Journal, and Gone Lawn, among many others. Bruce is the founding editor-in-chief of the nature-centric literary magazine Humana Obscura and author of The Weight of Snow, 28 Days of Solitude, The Starling’s Song, and Measures.
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