to sit by small songs of wind
air tonight persists
abandoned
names picture a ghost no longer
photographed doubts develop
into this breath recollection a ledge walk
the path
tries to divide the sky
but its slow trail fades
is but an impression
lost
in wisps
of clouds a slow dissolve
Bio:
J.F. Merifield, a poet living in northwest Montana with a Poetry M.F.A. from George Mason University, has a forthcoming publication in La Picciolette Barca and other poems published by Verse, Rust & Moth, The Inner Loop, Miles to Go, and Proost.
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