from the Poet's Nook
at The Brattle Street Rag
Marblehead at Twilight
by Olga Anastasia Pelensky
Marblehead at twilight is a modern reverie, lightly
tinted: the wind caught up green fire, in the silence
the town chimes began to play
a white shadow eludes memory
the harbor fills with smoke, bluish hues of blue the boats and sails
running lines in the lull through the sound of seashells forgetting
to chatter
buoys leaving time in the haze
He threw the smooth stone and seaweed aside, the steep cliffs and
dark making him nearly slip down
a half-forgotten game in the grass the glass knight with all
motion lost
the light, twilight ovals and roses on the waves, a suspended
etching in glass and coral air transparent layers resisting
opaqueness and loss
everything seeking its reflection in the sun and water
the gull equipoised between the wind and town
a clarity of dream and ice a pearl
Marblehead at Twilight was first published in
The Christian Science Monitor
Copyright @ 2021 by O.A. Pelensky
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