Baby Dark Sky
by Meg Smith
In the space of totality,
I find you; stars, cold, splendid at noon.
I know you in this shadow hour;
I know you as you blur
and bleed into your night's disc.
In your light without light,
all burns clear.
© 2022 Meg Smith
Meg Smith is a poet, writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass. Her poems have appeared in The Cafe Review, Pudding, Poetry Bay,The Horror Zine, Silver Blade, Raven Cage, The Blue Hour Anthology, and many more.
Her short fiction collection The Plague Confessor is available at her online store! megsmithwriter.com
Her most recent poetry books, Pretty
Green Thorns, Night's
Island, This
Scarlet Dancing and Dear Deepest Ghost, are available on Amazon.
Find more by Meg Smith in the Author Index.
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