Aurora Antonovic
 

after all these years
we run into each other
at the airport...
your disappointment
that I've cut my hair

childhood cottage
replaced
by a mansion
the beach of my dreams
asleep beneath the lake

what did
you have for dinner
he asks
and then he catches it —
chocolate stains on my white shirt

through
the hospital corridor
I hear him
the old man weeping as someone
sings You Are My Sunshine

she drinks her coffee
cold and bitter
a wince of displeasure
the wrench of her mouth
as she says affair

Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian writer, editor, and visual artist whose work has appeared over six thousand times in publications worldwide. She currently acts as Haiga Editor for Simply Haiku, artist-in-residence for moonset, the newspaper, and is the founder of Magnapoets, a poetry group that seeks to promote the love of verse in all forms.

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