here I am
by myself
at the same romantic inn
where we once stayed
I walk the rose-bordered path
dine at the same table
gaze at flames
in the same stone fireplace
watch the sun sink
into the same cold sea
lie in the very bed
we once shared
no more alone
now
than I was then
Joy Harold Helsing lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. She is an ex-salesclerk, ex-secretary, ex-textbook editor, ex-psychologist, ex-college instructor, ex-New Englander, and ex-San Franciscan. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals and she has published three chapbooks and one book, Confessions of the Hare (PWJ Publishing).
