Someone I once knew

You tore into me

Left hunks of your

Mad hours

And poisoned clouds

Deep inside me

I waited for release

It came like oceans

In sleep we moved

Fitfully, searching

For missing pieces

Found in one another

Today I heard your name

Whispered from a distance

Of mountains and lifetimes

No longer do you

Find me, waiting

In my place of wet

Longing, where

Tears turn to honey,

We are transformed

You are light

As a half-dreamt memory

You’re someone

Someone I once knew

Puma Perl is a poet and fiction writer who believes strongly in the transformative power of the creative arts. Her work has been published in cause & effect, MadSwirl, Trespass, Red Fez, Gloom Cupboard, Toronto Quarterly, The Oak Bend Review, and many other print and on-line publications. Her work has been published in several anthologies, including The Mom Egg and In Love. Her first chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends, was recently published by Erbacce Press. She performs her work in many venues, in and out of New York City.