Lake & Hearth

The cyan leaps

      & laps:

a poem in slant 

rhymes

that I lip-read

from your window.

I’m caught between  

  its clean blue 

meaning

& the fire’s orange 

scrawl.  

Laurie Koensgen lives and writes in Ottawa, Canada. Her poetry appears internationally in journals, anthologies and online magazines. Laurie’s latest chapbook, Small Psalms for Moving On, is with Pinhole Poetry.