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<\/strong>2 Poems by D. L. Gollnitz<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Insomnia<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Behind bedroom blind
a celestial ball aglow
Bright white light
Morning, noon, night?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unnerved, sleep disturbed
bright white light
Sun, Moon, lamp?
Behind bedroom blind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Passes
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Slowly
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sleepless<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind bedroom blind
No celestial ball, no glow.
No sleep, no light
Yawn to dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morning gray hangs heavy
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Close branches fill
silhouettes askew in black
Earth invisible beyond<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where lies the garden
beauty blurred
Stillness broken with alarm
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0blaring out a new day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind bedroom blind
         clouded celestial ball
filtered sun through gray
         in morning fog<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pinata and Goldfish<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I want to play in my room, he says.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You can go upstairs and play.
<\/em>But there\u2019s no stripes on the walls \u2014
Peter, James, and John aren\u2019t there!
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Oh that room, the smaller one.
<\/em>My words \u2014 no comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six years fierce and face set stern,
crystal blue pools fill with tears.
His sloppy sniffs syncopate
to shutters of his shoulders.
A clammy hand reaches mine.
I smile; he leads the way upstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the bedroom without stripes
Nothing swims in the fish tank.
We stand still, patient, and calm.
With pink cheeks still wet with tears
He points over the windows
where an empty ceiling hook waits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From an unpacked moving box
He pulls the pinata
A gift from Daddy\u2019s Mexico trip.
He raises the bull up high
for me to place the colors
on a hook exactly where they hung<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the bedroom with striped walls
where Peter, James, and John swam
happily in their glass home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do prior homeowners
leave ceiling hooks near windows
In children\u2019s rooms, in homes we choose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his bed with Teddy Bear,
he smiles at vibrant colors.
I unpack the box; fish food,
air pump, tri-colored rocks.
The empty aquarium
will wait for another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And goldfish will come to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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D. L. Gollnitz<\/strong> is a former educator, author of three published novels \u2014 including her latest<\/em> Private Family Business<\/a> (A Waverly Consultants Novel), and quilter. She was born in New England and now lives in the Midwest with her husband.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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