Poem: Tracing a Love Song by Emma Lee

photo by Roman Kraft (unsplash)

first published in Rhythm n Bones Lit Issue 6: Love

(Golden Shovel based on a line from “Empty Highway Home” James Fountain)

Tracing a Love Song

Charcoal clouds swell in an orange dawn sky. I
drive this regular, everyday route where I am
conscious of each pothole, each bump, each afraid
rabbit; the magpies that move aside, wary of
cars; the pigeons and muntjacs who aren't. The
sun doesn't diminish the fog. The day remains dark.
The radio plays a love song that renders me blank.
Love fades as leaves fall. A familiar road.

~Emma Leee

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Emma has had publications including "Ghosts in the Desert" (IDP, UK, 2015). "The Significance of a Dress" from Arachne.  She co-edited "Over Land, Over Sea," (Five Leaves, UK, 2015),   http://emmalee1.wordpress.com