Richard L. Matta
Stretched Strings
Song-awakened, in diffusing rearview mirror glow,
a silhouette emerges, outlined by moon's near glow.
Dew-soaked skin clamors in memory's immersion:
jumbled and malleable in steeped hunger's dire glow.
Merging of heart petals — accordions of hope —
chambers resonate and thump in streaming tear glow.
Inevitable sentences unrolling their uncertainty.
Dust motes swirl in the satin sheets clear glow.
In the gloaming, only wistful sparkles of one remain.
Beethoven's Cavatina orphans the fading dear glow.
Bio
Richard L. Matta is originally from New York's rustic Hudson Valley and now lives in San Diego, California. He's often on or near the San Diego Bay with his golden-doodle dog. His poems appear in Hole in the Head Review, Healing Muse, Modern Haiku, and San Pedro River Review, among others.