View
For six months I looked
at these treetops
from this same window
the irregular cross-hatching of their branches.
And now that we’ve returned
and I sit here once again
I have the sense, that for all
those nights we were gone, the trees
visited me while I slept,
in a kind of recurring dream
their design against the sky
shown as from a projector;
and I’d walk in front of the generous beam
and their branches would cover my skin
and move through me.
I hadn’t realized this until now
as they stand before me
as though I had been missed.
Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s poems have appeared the New York Times, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry”. Read more.
Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s poem “View” was published in The Journal of American Poetry.