Smokestacks, against skyline, thick gray smoke raining
the ash of a hundred years ago, falling upon brick houses
*
She sits at her kitchen window, high above Niagara, eating
a spoonful of red raspberry jam; watching afternoon dissolve
*
Intermittently, merchant ships blast their horns, making slow
passage on a canal to Ontario, heading north to the sea
*
By dark, she presses her forehead against the screen, wondering
what she has failed to see in the wake of so many things leaving
M.J. Iuppa’s fifth full-length poetry collection The Weight of Air is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in May of 2022. For the past 33 years, she has lived on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Check out her blog: mjiuppa.blogspot.com for her musings on writing, sustainability and life’s stew.
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