[Poetry] Where You’ll Find Me by Peggy Heitmann

If you are looking for me,

you will find me near the ocean

under a purple velvet sky

sprinkled in a star shower

of dreamy notions.

Ideals poets write about:

glimpses of tranquility,

a shimmer of kindness.

I’ll be standing at the water’s edge.

You’ll soon discover I’m like a broken

earthen vase, still usable,

polished by the salty sea,

and grainy ocean sands,

once jagged now smooth.

I reach down, scoop

water into my hands

and look up at the flower moon.

I douse myself in

in briny water, and sink deeper

into the sand.

Peggy Heitmann is an award-winning poet who received a 2024 pushcart nomination from Gyroscope Review. She has published poems in, Gyroscope Review, Wild Word Poetry Remington Review, and Atlanta Review. She considers herself both word and visual artist. Peggy lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and their two cats.