Inner Night

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Michael Campagnoli

she sighed

across the dashboard’s

glow, leaned her head

against the window

gazed an empty moon

 

waiting for a lover

watching for him

to rise up

 

up

from the puckerbrush

and mist

 

not to save her

but to whisper:

 

that love is more

that dreams are more

 

than waiting

for a hero

~

About the Author

MICHAEL CAMPAGNOLI has worked as a waiter, fisherman, journalist, painter, and short-order cook. His work has appeared in New Letters, Nimrod, and the Southern Humanities Review. He can be seen most mornings running somewhere along the coast of Maine with his mongrel dog, Yogi, and Anthony, his equally mongrel sixteen year-old son.

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