poem for Tues.

[Joan Winokur]

                     

                               Significant  Other

Will you be my witness, 

observer of my life,

note-taker of my days?

Will you be the artist’s eye

that looks at the canvas

of my years, the chiaroscuro

of my face, observe the play

of light and shadow.

Will you hold me when there are

too many darks?

Will you be there to declare

I was here?

Joan Heller Winokur