Points of View

Sharon Ackerman

All that time spent as a child
under the moon,
and I never once looked upward

Preferring to run, a jar held
high for lightning bugs,
the air damp on my arms                                                                                                                                       

Calling look to my father, waving
my jar of lights, as he peered
down the long telescope of years.

Where I waited, steeped in dew
and he searched the silvering air,
its large heavens, as though he knew

We would fail to find each other
in this world, so he gazed into the next.

Sharon Ackerman holds an M.Ed from the University of Virginia. She is the first place winner of the Hippocrates Poetry in Medicine international contest, London 2019. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Streetlight Magazine, The Atlanta Review, and Heartwood Literary Magazine. She is the poetry editor for Streetlight Magazine.