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night lights - frances boyle


“Night Lights” was previously published in the 2019 collection This White Nest (Quattro Books)


At a rented cottage, my two-year-old 

dreamily wondered “What are those shiny 

things in the sky?”  


But she’d always known the moon, 

always pointed her arrow arm, 

called out that silvery name;


that fat celebrity moon, 

vaguely flattered by earthly 

adulation while feigning boredom


Under street-lamp globes, my shadow stretches 

and lengthens, then snaps small as I move

from one yellow pool of light to another.





Frances Boyle (she/her) is a Canadian writer who lives in Ottawa. She is the author of three poetry collections, a novella and an award-winning short story collection. Recent and forthcoming publications include The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Dreich, Thimble Lit and Consilience.

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