Imaginal
Now I must give up
the idea of you, who
with your gentle jokes
your bursts of passion
the unexpected sweetness of your notes
upended me. Never really here
although my home felt
habited by you, your spirit
has moved on
and I must close my door
because the door in you
has closed.
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Penelope Moffet lives in Southern California. She is the author of three chapbooks, Cauldron of Hisses (Arroyo Seco Press, 2022), It Isn’t That They Mean to Kill You (Arroyo Seco Press, 2018) and Keeping Still (Dorland Mountain Arts, 1995). Her poems have been published in many journals, among them One by Jacar Press, ONE ART, Natural Bridge, Verse-Virtual, The Rise Up Review, The Ekphrastic Review and Sheila-Na-Gig. She has worked as a freelance journalist, a publicist for non-profits, an editor and a legal secretary. She is currently enjoying the freedom to do whatever she damn well pleases most days.
