There was a cornflower blue
over the playground, I had never seen
so pure and high.
It brought a longing for a dress
seen in a shop window long ago,
for the first time.
Where is that dress that moved me
like that sky? Why do I feel the cold
asphalt of the playground?
The shove that made me cry?
Paula Goldman’s book, The Great Canopy, won the Gival Press Poetry award, and was honorable mention for the Independent Booksellers’ Award. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, The North American Review, Creosote, Slippery Elm, theravensperch, Passager, Visions International, Rattle, Across the Margin, and many other magazines.
