Alan Toltzis
[It is not sorrow]
It is not sorrow,
it is not groan,
not loss, but absence
like missing the moon,
at month's end,
falter then recover
across four nights of rain
metronoming moderato
off the corner of a gutter.
Bio
Alan Toltzis is the author of 49 Aspects of Human Emotion and The Last Commandment. He has published widely in print and online journals and is a contributing editor for The Saturday Poetry Series at As It To Be Magazine. Find him online at alantoltzis.com and follow him on Twitter @ToltzisAlan.