Before he loved the stars
He loved the paint, the brush, the canvas
He loved the ear he sacrificed
He probably loved a woman
We cannot go back in time
and see what drove him
But if love is a key to everything,
Why did he love the night?
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.