E. C. Traganas

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I saw you last night

just before a dream.

Or was I awake? It

was hard to tell,

your smile caught me off guard

like the fragile leaves of an old journal

falling from my fingers.

Perhaps it was your voice

that softly dropped

like a moss-covered pine cone,

an autumn pebble

skimming across the glassy surface

of an ocean.

Whichever it was

unleashed a flood of questions:

how far, how deep, how wide—

How long it’s been

since the pages of your yesterdays

have filled the ocean of

my Now.

Author of the critically applauded debut novel Twelfth House, and Shaded Pergola, a new work of short poetry that features her original illustrations, E.C. Traganas has published in a myriad of literary journals and enjoys a varied career as a Juilliard-trained concert pianist & composer.