airless satellite
by Robin Elise Hamilton
Blackstrap sad tortoiseshell rover
me and me walking alone
No sun at night and moreover
no one for me in me phone
No one gone sing out a glad tune
left their love far behind me
Slog the daft side of the mad moon
me and me melancholy
Memory me cannot forget
burning so deep in this sand
Bailing with bucket of regret
ash of last wave of your hand
Robin Elise Hamilton (she/her) is a recently-septuagenarian, recently-out queer trans woman recently-returned to writing poetry after a half-century offstage in live performance.
