At 3 a.m. the coach turns bard
seeking defense in verse
yet mired and mesmerized
by a monitor screen
where galaxies explode
to frozen pinwheels
the universe alive
with quick silver stars
diverting his fret
from points in the paint.
Then he senses a miracle
rubbing sleep from her eyes
his four-year-old daughter
transfixed at his side.
“Your skinsaver looks
pretty at night,” she says,
then kisses him and drifts away
a raven-haired sleepwalker gowned
in white cotton.
Her malaprop teases the moment
like a cold star
prescient
and waiting.
Skinsaver…
His muse taps the mouse
eclipsing the cosmos
and offers the lead verse of a poem:
Tonight save skin in the paint
shift defense from man to zone.
Under Amber Skies, written by author and poet Jill Eisnaugle, is a wonderful collection of rhyming poetry guaranteed to please every reader. In this, her second book, she writes of new friendships kindled, as well as old friendships solidified. She g
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