The cat’s brown coat, but not
the tongue he licks it with.
Winter light, a slick
of simmering gray.
A petal from the orchid in the window
falls lightly to the sill.
The edge of fading light that crawls
along the shade.
August Moon, they call the shade of yellow
on the bedroom wall.
A glow to read by as I wait—pages
hushing fingers turn by turn.
My fingers brush her forehead where
a stray lock falls across her eyes.
Eyes still blue, still gazing softly,
now gone still.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 25, Issue 4.
Meredith Davies Hadaway has three published collections of poetry from Wordtech—including At the Narrows, winner of the 2015 Delmarva Book Prize for Creative Writing. Her work has also appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Harpur Palate, New Ohio Review, Rhino, Salamander, Southern Poetry Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review, among other journals. Hadaway is the Sophie Kerr Poet-in-Residence at Washington College.
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