Heather Minette’s most recent poem to appear here was “Return” (December 2016)
Falling
By Heather Minette
Swallowing a cry,
I closed his front gate behind me,
and from his bedroom window he watched,
as I looked to the night sky
and witnessed a speck of silver,
falling.
A silent confirmation.
A reflection.
A finale.
We, too, fell from above,
entered the earth’s atmosphere,
and burned.
Sad.
Cuts to the quick! Beautiful.