digital negative from argentine flag: ralph murre
Under a
bushel
by
Marilyn Zelke-Windau
Under
a bushel
she
hid the moon,
the
neon city in a candle,
the
year colored green, yellow, red.
A
white-black wave of flash
exposed
the switch,
and
dimming the fire
of
the night beam
she
came, blinded, to the bright
and
stepped into the ray.
~
first published in Verse Wisconsin
