This poem appears in my unpublished novel, Coffeetree, a courtroom drama set in Central Kentucky. Although it’s a courtroom drama, there’s a lot of romance in the plot. In the story, a broken-hearted lover recites this poem in moonlight and doesn’t know that the object of her longing is eavesdropping.


Poem by Mike Wilson, photo by Eberhard Grossgasteiger
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About Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson’s work has appeared in magazines including Cagibi Literary Journal, Stoneboat, The Aurorean, The Ocotillo Review, London Reader, and in anthologies including for a better world 2020 and Anthology of Appalachian Writers Vol. X. He received Kentucky State Poetry Society’s Chaffin/Kash Prize in 2019. He resides in Lexington, Kentucky, but summers in Ecstasy and winters in Despair.

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