Appearances

Diane Gage

for Haruki Murakami

halfway around the world
a girl disappears
the one who used to call you
in the middle of your dreams

you travel hard
through hallucinatory airports
across seas with strange names
find yourself on the island
where she was last seen

the only clues - letters
in your own handwriting
written to no-one you know

you swim, scan the horizon
for the green flash at sunset
try to count up the sum
of your misunderstandings

when you close your eyes
you almost see her

Diane Gage - Diane Gage is a writer, artist and Expressive Arts Counselor. Born in Montana and educated in literature and language in North Carolina (Duke, MA) and Arizona (ASU, PhD), she is also a graduate of the Expressive Arts Institute and the European Graduate School in Switzerland. Poetry is Diane Gage’s primary passion and she has published poems in various venues such as Rattapallax, Seattle Review, Puerto del Sol, Poeisis and the National Forum.

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