A Poem by Sandy Benitez

Enigma

We exchanged our pain

after the third Autumn 

of our acquaintance.

Momentarily,

I located your heart 

beneath the engima 

of your words,

poems that scattered 

like monarchs

upon a pale grey sky 

of dreams.

 

I have never held a net

but in my quest 

for beauty of your kind 

I become the hunter 

in my red poppy dress,

capturing pieces of you 

along the meadow's edge.

The puzzle of you evades me

and you splinter

into tinier fragments

I cannot decipher.

 

 

 

Sandy Benitez is the founder and editor of Flutter Press and Poppy Road Review.  She has authored a full-length collection of poetry, five chapbooks, and published in two anthologies.  Sandy resides in California with her husband and their 2 children.