I START TO SPEAK…

…close my lips.
Your eyes make me
forget my complaints
about—
I don’t remember.

So little time, and
more important things
to say, like
I like you so much. And
The weather will get better.

Let’s go to the museum
where we know
everything is art.
We can share a sandwich
in the bright café.

Sandra Storey’s poetry collection Every State Has Its Own Light (Word Poetry, 2014) was a finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award. She was selected as a featured poet on the topic of heartbreak by MockingHeart Review in 2022 after having poems published there several times. Her poetry has appeared in New Millennium Writings, Ocotillo Review and the New York Quarterly, among other journals. Sandee founded, published and edited two neighborhood newspapers in Boston 1991-2011. A former English teacher, she has also led writing workshops for adults and has given readings in Austin, Texas and San Francisco as well as quite a few in Boston.