saving daylight
the translucent leaves
of October
Author: Alexa Selph
Alexa Selph is a native Atlantan, where she works as a freelance book editor and teaches poetry in the adult education program at Emory University. Her poems have been published in Poetry, Smartish Pace, Hummingbird and Modern Haiku, among others.
baseball game
for three hours we all belong
to the same party
hard times
the bird bath freezes over
before sundown
Mozart’s birthday–
the slow decay
of the last chord
blackberry bramble,
bearded rhododendron —
forty years together
my mother’s last word
a raised pinkie,
the letter I
in sign language:
our code for ice, more ice
summer solstice—
the Shiraz
we’ve been waiting to open
after the solstice
waiting for the light
to change
autumn afternoon–
an empty shopping cart
waits at the bus stop
last day of vacation—
the blackberries
won’t let me go
full moon
floating face up
in the bird bath
