Arpeggio
I lie awake.
Night presses down my eyes.
A blackbird’s song scythes through the gloom,
its silver corkscrew ripple
reminding me
the days are longer now.
Susan Castillo Street is Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor Emerita, King’s College London. She has published five collections of poems, The Candlewoman’s Trade (Diehard Press, 2003), Abiding Chemistry, (Aldrich Press, 2015), The Gun-Runner’s Daughter, (Aldrich, 2018) and Cloak (Kelsay Books, 2020) Braiding (Kelsay Books 2023), as well as a pamphlet, Constellations (Three Drops Press, 2016).