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Slipping fingers into pastures where the horses rested
the mountain range grew sharp and haloed.
Sun was expected and a duty, to announce
our need. But you, lesser light, disappearing,
showed a way out
or what I think of now
as a way in
so that turning a corner
down past the clearing
on the road
I was equal
to my silence.
Laura Schaeffer is a 2016 graduate of Goddard College’s MFA Creative Writing Program and received her undergraduate degree in English/Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Her poetry has been published in The Pitkin Review, Ars Poetica, Currents, Poetry Corners, and The Far Field. She is particularly interested in creative collaborations, writing as resiliency, and poets who have endured displacement and alienation due to war and social oppression. She is currently working on a collection of poems addressing the heroin epidemic.
