Hide and Go Seek

Sarah Webb

June 26, 2021 

In the crouch of summer night

I scowled in a dark hedge.

A branch stabbed my shoulder.

I held still

but raged inwardly,

choked on tears.

They hadn’t touched me

not in time—

they hadn’t!

A firefly flared to my arm,

its feet too soft to feel.

Its glow pulsed the night.

Sarah Webb co-edits the Zen magazine Just This. Her collection Black (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013) was named a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and for the Writers' League of Texas Book Award. Her Red Riding Hood's Sister (Purple Flag, 2018) was also short-listed for the Oklahoma Book Award.