Kathleen Goldblatt

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What Falls From the Sky

The snow has stopped.
Ice heavy on the tree’s
cracked limbs. I pull on boots,
walk the usual path.

In Tehran today,
concrete dust old as time
drifts from rubble,
spreads over pillar
and pediment.

On a Minneapolis street,
a scatter of
empty shoes.

Kathleen Goldblatt (she/her), author of the chapbook, Our Ghosts Wait Patiently, lives in Rhode Island where she reflects on poetry during walks with her dog, Archie, who never tires of listening. Her poems have appeared in The Comstock Review, The Healing Muse, Psychological Perspectives and The Ekphrastic Review among others. She is a mental health advocate and psychoanalyst.