The snowblower works the sidewalk
The wind works the window
Curtains flutter where the window leaks,
Miles Davis’s Nefertiti is the soundtrack,
And if all is not right with the world
This moment is right with me.

Loren Niemi has spent forty years creating, collecting, perform- ing, and teaching stories that matter. He is a published poet whose works include a chapbook, Coyote Flies Coach, and selections in the Poets Speak anthologies Water, Walls, and Survival. In 2019, Moonfire Publishing released his collection of ghost stories, What Haunts Us.

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