Turn around and gone      

by Eve Rifkah
                                                     

she found herself on the wrong balcony
looking in

she had stepped out
              under reflected glare of city light
leaned over rail      looked up
and down empty street

turned       to step back     inside
now dark                
                    all the faces gone
                    glint on glass
                    the kaleidoscope of dress spun
                    in a fusion wine-y drift
                    gone

now darkness other side
fists on glass     a beat
                     a keen pours over the balcony
                     washes down the streets
                     slides off walls dwindling
                     into this dark night


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"Turn around and gone" is from Eve Rifkah's 4th book, Lost in Sight (Silver Bow Publishing, 2021).

Eve Rifkah was co-founder of Poetry Oasis, Inc. (1998-2012), a non-profit poetry association dedicated to education and promoting local poets. Founder, and editor of DINER, a literary magazine. She is the 2021 recipient of the Stanley Kunitz award. She lives in Worcester, MA with her husband and cat, Bela.