Poetry & Photography by Tricia Marcella Cimera

James Says
 
James says  I remember this horse
I say  I do too
This is the playground horse
we used to ride
when we were kids
that carried us far away
What’s it doing here
in this small strange park of dark
leaves and ghost white doors?
We’re all grown up but the horse
is exactly the same 
We hold hands tightly
and look over our shoulders
It was a long time ago but
our mothers may be coming
through those old doors
looking for us
This may be their ‘bad time’
James says  I’m afraid
I say  I am too
The horse says    I remember



BIO: Tricia Marcella Cimera is a Midwestern poet with a worldview. Her work appears in many diverse places — from the Buddhist Poetry Review to the Origami Poems Project.  Her poem ‘The Stag’ won first place honors in College of DuPage’s 2017 Writers Read: Emerging Voices contest. Tricia lives with her husband and family of animals in Illinois / in a town called St. Charles / by a river named Fox / with a Poetry Box in her front yard.