Writing by Kerry Ann Wiley

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Dark blue landscape of a misty river or wetland beneath a clouded night sky, with shadowed trees along the horizon.

On an August night, the stars forget, the crickets lose their songs, and a name passes between one hour and the next.

Between Here and Nowhere stays with that shift: where black bruises into blue, and time keeps more than it explains.


Between Here and Nowhere (A Poem)

By Kerry Ann Wiley

On an August night
the stars forgot their light.
The moon stayed still,
the dark leaned in,
and silence followed twilight.

The sky turned black,
then bruised to blue,
while shadows stretched
where daylight withdrew.

The crickets misplaced
the songs that they knew.
The trees stood listening.
The night did too.

A name passed softly,
then vanished somewhere
between here and nowhere.

The stars kept their secrets.
The moon offered none.

Still, the moments remained,
the old and the new,
the laughter, the stories,
and what time kept
in between.

Darkness keeps changing
from black into blue.

Some may scatter,
some may end.

Yet twilight returns,
from blue back to black,
and what is gone
still alters the dark.


By morning, the sky has changed again; the night has not given everything back. What lingers waits between blue and black.



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