PJ Nights                                             Pockets when I tuck notes or snacks into my daughter's pockets or empty them to ready her clothes for the laundry I find her stashes of acorns, ribbons, feathers, shells - and play a game like that of those mystery boxes filled with ordinary things made exotic in their being unseen, where one must use unfamiliar arts to know them            in this way I put together where she's been * today her cache is a handful of rocks - no silver flecks or bands of quartz - ordinary stones            the kind that fill a pathway in place of pavement each is different            but none has a singular snowflake beauty and I wonder why she chose them * in my pockets - a gum wrapper, a penny gone to green, torn corners of paper holding 'undusted stately days' and 'latent storms'            there's a note I got in the mail, your scrappy scratch on the backs of wine labels            its letters at times threaten to spill backwards off the edge - its message unremarkable, perhaps, if not for the way it makes me long to put my hands in your pockets - - to know             where you have been in today's perfect moment in the kind of clouds in which you see ice cream cones and dragons against that exact definition of blue, petals of apple blossoms let go                            and so do I PJ Nights lives in coastal Maine with her family and various pound pets. She teaches physics and astronomy. Her poetry and stories have been published on the web at Erotica Readers & Writers Association, Slow Trains, CleanSheets, Erosha, Adult Story Corner, Mind Caviar, Amoret, the Emerald Collection, Ophelia's Muse, Hoot Island, the Writer's Hood, Tryst, La Rosa Blanca and MiPoesias. Her works appear in print in Penumbra and the 2002 Slow Trains Anthology. PJ Nights		lilip Member Directory Newest Members OnSite Poets Become a member Philosophy Message Board Lingerings Resources,Links and Webrings Search WOAW! Legalities Contact All material submitted by poets and authors remain in their copyright and is not available to be added to any anthology, collection, website, or any other use;personal or otherwise, without the author's permission. Issue Seven BasicFred Nadia Brown Janet Buck Anne Fraser Rosemarie Koch Kelly Ann Malone Marlene McCarty RL Mobley Dianna Morton PJ Nights PBURROUGHS Elena Ray Summer Rogers tanya-cherie
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