March 2024
Kate Flaherty
kateflaherty99@gmail.com
Bio Note: I've been writing since high school. I've served in the Peace Corps and taught in British Columbia, Albuquerque, NM and Dorchester, MA. My poems have been published in Poet Lore, Muddy River Poetry River and others. I've enjoyed hearing from other poets about my November poem.

Lost and Found

Time passes.
Calendar pages flip.
Snowflakes fall, then melt away.
Planets rotate and
Seldom go astray.

Whether time is lost or not,
you control the major stuff
like tying your shoes,
brushing your teeth,
To floss or not to floss?

The sun rises and sets
without you. 
The moon moves tides in mighty slurps
without you.

Just once in a while,
in the swinging of the solar system,
the majesty of the multiverse,
the waves of the chilly ocean,
the singing of the meadowlark,
the forest of pink petals
falling from peach trees,
your eyes open and you see
what you’ve found 
and wonder what you’ve lost.
©2024 Kate Flaherty
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