Here, She Said

Image: “Cinderella Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” by Barbara Graff. “Here, She Said” was written by Chris Ransick for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, December 2017, and selected as the Editor’s Choice.
It’s not what the light
lets you see, she said, it’s
 
this, and she pulled my face
underwater with a kiss.
 
Like amateurs, we covered
ourselves with earth, came up
 
the hill phosphorescent, as if
we’d hibernated, forgotten
 
our names. At the top
again we remembered them
 
and forgot only her shoes,
hallelujah may they glow
 
there forever above the pressed
turf, the illuminated trace
 
of pleasure turned to halo
round an embarrassed moon.
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