Reticence

Reticence

Caroline Liberatore

I retract from Your heat, as oil from water
But You’re insistent, and I’m liquid.

Lord, that I am a shadow in your streetlight
Melting over light-stained asphalt
And in all of my pathetic, hesitant spite
You dissolve me.

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Caroline Liberatore
Poet & Library Worker

Caroline has also been published in Ashbelt Journal. Find more of her work on Instagram (@carolinemlib) and at carolinelib.wordpress.com.

Photography by Philip Warp