Midnight moon so bright
it made night
the negative of night.
Waves, late August,
foaming, the same mistakes
over and over
until what’s left
is the flatness of things:
this black stone worn down,
the beach grasses too,
the horizontal lovers
beyond the break.
Sarah Stern is the author of We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune (Kelsay Press, Aldrich Press, 2018), But Today Is Different (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2014) and Another Word For Love (Finishing Line Press, 2011). She is a recipient of a 2018 Pushcart Prize nomination and a five-time winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO Poetry Award. You can see more of her work at https://sarahstern.me/.
