“Night Lights” was previously published in the 2019 collection This White Nest (Quattro Books)
At a rented cottage, my two-year-old
dreamily wondered “What are those shiny
things in the sky?”
But she’d always known the moon,
always pointed her arrow arm,
called out that silvery name;
that fat celebrity moon,
vaguely flattered by earthly
adulation while feigning boredom
Under street-lamp globes, my shadow stretches
and lengthens, then snaps small as I move
from one yellow pool of light to another.
Frances Boyle (she/her) is a Canadian writer who lives in Ottawa. She is the author of three poetry collections, a novella and an award-winning short story collection. Recent and forthcoming publications include The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Dreich, Thimble Lit and Consilience.
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