by K.B. Ballentine

Night fingers the sky, purple and red
ribboning the blue. The world tilts.

Thoughts no longer wedge beneath busy-ness.
Outside my door crickets scour the night,

an owl screaks. Inside all is quiet.
Clocks stopped, mirrors shrouded.

Darkness crawls closer. The street light
buzzes and pops on. Fog pearls the windows,

erases the moon.

KB BALLENTINE has attended writing academies in both America and Britain. Published in Bent Pin, MO: Writings from the River, Apocalypse, Touchstone, and others, she shares her work in various poetry groups. A finalist for the 2007 Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry and the 2006 Joy Harjo Poetry Award, she was awarded monies from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund in 2006 and 2007. In February 2008, Celtic Cat Publishing debuted KB’s first collection of poetry Gathering Stones and in 2009 released her second collection Fragments of Light.