Patio
I sit on the patio
of the hotel room
along the coast
and stare up.
I reach out
for the stars
etched
in the firmament
and burn
my fingers.
Louis Faber is a poet and writer. His work has appeared in several
anthologies and in The MacGuffin, Cantos, Alchemy Spoon, New Feathers
Anthology, Flora Fiction, Dreich (Scotland), Prosetrics, Atlanta Review,
Glimpse, Rattle, Cold Mountain Review, Pearl, Midstream, European
Judaism, The South Carolina Review and Worcester Review, among many
others, and has been nominated for a Best of the Web and twice nominated
for a Pushcart Prize.
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