It's Partly Grace
I heard a bus in the distance
and noticed close up a rat scurrying
out of a bush of moonflowers,
the night I waited for you
for the first time on a street
familiar to us both. A woman
in a light yellow raincoat
appeared—it wasn’t you, yet
I knew it would be soon, solidifying
a lovely parable how against
the odds there we were, and everyone
waiting and longing sang on the avenue
past midnight, how the mountains outside
the city marveled and moved.
- Tim Suermondt 2019
Tim Suermondt is the author of four full-length collections of poems, the latest one THE WORLD DOESN’T KNOW YOU. His fifth collection JOSEPHINE BAKER SWIMMING POOL will be coming out from MadHat Press in January 2019. He has published in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Able Muse and Plume, among many others. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
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