Within the Night

Poetry by Judy DeCroce

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​a warming silence approaches,
the air moves, shifting,
around a steady crowd of ghosts

some forget their partners
as shadows lock together

my open eyes focus
on a tiny light
that only shines here--
drifting, unfinished.

About the Writer

Judy DeCroce is an internationally published poet, flash fiction writer, educator, and professional storyteller whose works have been published by The BeZINE, The Front Porch Review, North of Oxford, The Poet Magazine, Amethyst Review, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, and many other journals and anthologies.

Judy's poem, “Teeny’s Barn," was published this spring in Brought to Sight & Swept Away: A Poetry Anthology About Time by Vita Brevis Press; Editor, Brian Geiger, placed as number one by Amazon in the 2021 New Poetry Anthologies Category.