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Profile of a shadow
He lays half dozing,
legs slightly bend into the softness
head turned to the window
stretching width and breadth of the wall
barely a hand’s touch away
his face turned toward infinity
The house is as silent as he
not a whisper of the woman
in the chair across
watching him watching
the rolling green wild
He is visitor to her domain
of solitude and emptiness
they bring different eyes
have come through different paths
to this collision of their dreams.
About the Author: Sharon Lopez Mooney, poet, is a retired Interfaith Chaplain, who worked in the death and dying field, now lives in Mexico on the Sea of Cortez, and visits family in northern California. Mooney has been writing since the late 1970’s when she owned a used bookstore in a very renown rural arts town in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a California Arts Council Grant for a rural poetry series; co-published a regional arts anthology; co-owned an alternative literature service; and facilitates poetry feedback groups.
Mooney’s poems are in publications nationally and internationally, like: “The Blotter, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Kennings Literary Galway Review, California Quarterly, Ginosko, Door is a Jar, The Ricochet Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, International, Glassworks, Tipton Literary Journal, Sybil, Revue {R}Évolution”, and anthologies: “CALYX; Cold Lake; Strong Words; Smoke & Myrrors” (UK), amongst many others. She has a chapbook & a full length poetry collection ready for a publisher. Poems are indexed at: www.sharonlopezmooney.com
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