Gunilla T. Kester
Night Visitor
All night light seeping
through dark branches
as if somebody’s trying.
Blue lilac dumb, waiting
for spring, its craft to lure
fragrant blooms into air.
How lightly they wait
for what they do not know.
Only I’m awake listening
to the growling wind, counting
hours, beat of the lonely,
wondering what promise
streams from the street lamp
at the end of the road?
Swedish-born Gunilla Theander Kester is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Mysteries I-XXIII (2011) and Time of Sand and Teeth (2009) and co-edited The Still Empty Chair: More Writings Inspired by Flight 3407 (2011) and The Empty Chair: Love and Loss in the Wake of Flight 3407 (2010), as well as a full length collection of poetry If I Were More Like Myself (2015). Dr. Kester has published many poems in Swedish anthologies and magazines, including Bonniers Litterära Magasin. She lives near Buffalo, NY where she teaches classical guitar. https://www.gunillakester.com/about.html