Greece, together, like we’d planned. Bathing beneath a glassy sky. Wading in a sea the perfect temperature for lucid dreaming.

On the California tarmac, your profile is a sun-streaked mirage filling the airplane window. I wave goodbye to a tomorrow only I can see.

Greece, though, was so very lovely.

VA lives outside Seattle, WA, with her human and animal family. Her work has appeared in The Lake, 34th Parallel Magazine, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Five on the Fifth, Lumina Journal, Panoplyzine Magazine as the Editors’ Poem of Choice, The Basilisk Tree, and Figwort. She has work forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Courtship of The Winds, and Remington Review, along with a poetry collection through Kelsay Books.