every so often
on her walks
her eyes catch a stranger’s stare
meeting her glance —
unblinking, bemused eyes
holding her glance
for more than a moment,
a gaze glad with the promise
of exuberant talk
but already aloof
with knowing that their eyes meet
only in passing
that they will walk on
without looking back —
as if conspiring
to end a sentence that insists
nothing happens
Jack Kristiansen exists in William Aarnes’ composition books,
where is he
working on a developing series that he thinks he will call Something
Discovering Itself: Poems after Klee. Poems from this series
have previously appeared in
A Millennial Sampler of