Landscape Without Trees
I dreamed it often.
I was alone.
The elevator door would open.
In shadow, a floor
between the fourth and the fifth,
just below home:
an endless hall.
Like the garage
below the building
you could get lost in,
where the green Pontiac’s lit hood ornament,
the golden Indian, might glow forever
after the car stopped.
Twilight, my father was saying.
The place between day and night.
Calling me into its grey arms
like the onset of this.
Sally Wilder David (Mrs. Fredric Weinstock) has published in The Worcester Review, Anthology, 3Elements Review, Athena, Voices (international anthology; Israel), Silver Needle Press, Scarlet Leaf Review, Ekphrasis, The Anglican Theological Review, Pensive (Northeastern University) and other publications. Sally earned Honorable Mention in a Writers’ Digest contest and First Prize in a Worcester County Poetry Association contest judged by Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver. She studied with David Wojahn, Madeleine DeFrees, Patiann Rogers, Mark Doty and Paul Smyth and knew many notable thinkers & writers, including Bill Knott and Richard Wilbur. Sally lived and taught in Massachusetts for 33 years, where two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur recommended her to participate in a writers’ retreat at the VCCA in Amherst, Virginia. Her Chapbook, When I Remember to See, is ready for publication in 2024.
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