point of view

by Diane Webster

Blurred reflection

of colorful houses

shatters as a boy

jumps in the puddle.

Melted crayons

between sheets

of wax paper

on the sidewalk

mimic stained-glass

windows of a church.

Hot pavement

steams fog

after a rogue

August storm

T-bones the highway.

Diane Webster’s work has appeared in El Portal, North Dakota Quarterly, Verdad, and other literary magazines. She had micro-chaps published by Origami Poetry Press in 2022 and 2023 and was nominated for Best of the Net in 2022.