By Susan Read Cronin
Hanging by a thread
that’s how I find you.
You light upon my shoulder.
I will carry you farther
than you’ve ever been before.
I will take you up a trail
lined with bougainvillea.
Your eyes will not see
the beauty spread before us—
they will only sense
light and dark. You will turn into a moth.
Attracted by the light, in the dark
you will fly into a flame
and bring with you no memory
of what you are now:
a small green stripe, stretching out
to become a full inch
in the immeasurable world
that lies—vast
beyond my shoulder.
Susan Read Cronin is best known for her playful bronze sculptures. She is the author of Bronze Casting in a Nutshell and in 2020 published Notices, her first chapbook of poetry. She is currently working on another book of poems. Also by this poet: "The Dandelion of Plymouth Rock"