Cheating At Cards
She slaps down
her three shadows
on the table
and runs off
with my shadow.
Robert Hirschfield‘s poems have appeared in Salamander, Grasslimb, Noon (Japan), The Moth (Ireland), Pamplemousse and other magazines.
More here of Robert Hirschfield’s series of poems about his mother’s Alzheimer’s: http://jewishliteraryjournal.com/poetry/2-poems-robert-hirschfield/