AFTER TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS,
RUNNING INTO AN ESTRANGED FRIEND
It might have been a play,
an audience of souls:
me, waiting beside the wide picture window
of the inn, where the Candlelight Dinner Hour
would soon begin.
You emerged from the fireplace room
where no fire burned,
to step in the space where I stood.
Your gaze turned inward, you glided past me,
off the stage, again you stepped out of my life.
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Andrea Potos is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Two Emilys (Kelsay Books) and Her Joy Becomes (Fernwood Press). A new collection entitled The Presence of One Word is forthcoming later in 2025. Recent poems can be found in CALYX Journal, Presence, New York Times Book Review, Earth’s Daughters, and Poem. You can find her at andreapotos.com
