Stargazers
Suzanne Morris
March 16, 2022
Some nights I wonder if the stars
know we’re down here, our faces
tilted up, admiring them.
I remember my childhood
dance recitals held in the big
Houston Music Hall
where we’d appear on stage in
silver tap shoes, our small bodies
blinking with silver sequins.
When the house lights went down
and the auditorium turned
as black as night
our constellation of twinkling stars
saw only a gaping void beyond the
blinding footlights
as if all the mamas and daddies
out there had been
swallowed up by the darkness.
But we knew they were out there
those stargazers, their faces
tilted up, admiring us.
A novelist with eight published works spanning forty years, Suzanne Morris now focuses largely on writing poems. Her poetry is included in the anthology, No Season for Silence - Texas Poets and Pandemic (Kallisto GAIA Press, 2020). Examples have also appeared in The Texas Poetry Assignment and The New Verse News.
