Sandy Point          6:16 lights turning bright, cars, stars, a bridge on two shores the last boat moving to the rich and darkening sea scarlet on the ruffled water beach glass, oarlocks herself turning lavender under a hungry sky, the moon a ball of cottage cheese riding Little Compton          6:26 she is peering due south as the wind picks up, half a light year gone since the flood and not enough letting go kids chase a puppy on the grassy hill of the dune waves fall without a fuss on the patient pebbly sand sunset's at six, she sees, pulling in her cardigan
	--- Michele F. Cooper

About the author, Michele F. Cooper: Michele F. Cooper is the first-place winner in the TallGrass Poetry Competition, second-place winner in the Galway Kinnell Poetry Competition, author of two books and numerous published poems, founding editor of the Newport Review and Crone’s Nest literary magazines, and of a chapbook series, Premier Poets. She recently won honorable mentions in the Emily Dickinson and New Millennium Poetry Competitions. Her book Posting the Watch is forthcoming from Turning Point, an imprint of WordTech. She lives on a horse farm (not hers) in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

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