Amber F. Vinicrombe’s most recent poem to appear here was “Autumn Gardner” (December 2012)

For A Time
By Amber F. Vinicrombe

He was a trapeze swinger
For a time
He was a tightrope walker
For a time
Who was I to know
Which way he’d go?

I was posed
Poised
For a time
Wide-armed beneath an apple tree
An open- mitted catcher’s squat
For a time
I was ready for his gravity and stinging speed.

When I wasn’t looking
He slipped into the moonlit mist
White into white.