Guest Post! Erin M. Feldman

Watching and Waiting

We are watching the emptiness fill. No,

we are waiting. Waiting

and watching.

***

We can hear the waves lapping

against the hull. We forget the man

in the bird’s nest.

He is waiting, watching.

***

Or, we are seated on the porch,

drinking tea and eating - something.

We ignore the woman

drifting closer, the woman

waiting and watching.

***

Or, we pretend the sky isn’t pressing closer,

isn’t sticking to our skin with its yellow-

greenness and moisture.

We can still breathe.

We can still wait.

The emptiness is not filling.

We are watching and waiting.

Erin Feldman works as the marketing communications manager at TouchSystems,

but her passion is to grow her writing consulting business, Write Right. She has her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and graphic design. When she isn’t busy working at her day job or building her business, she reads and writes poetry, draws, runs, or tries to find people to go salsa dancing with her.