Tuesday afternoon in Kraków’s Rynek Główny
you nearly knocked me over
while I was trying to perfect my sketch
of Adam Mickiewicz (his nose was crooked).
Amidst the clamor of schoolchildren
and threat of pigeon dreck I was
a bit preoccupied. Then you appeared.
Elizabeth Simson, author of Sea Change (Finishing Line Press, 2005) sends her work from Mt. Hood, Oregon, USA. Her poetry has recently appeared in Versal, Main Channel Voices, Atlanta Review, Earth’s Daughters, and other journals.