Today I will visit as the first rays of the sun. I will touch you when you step from your house. You will sense something is different. You will touch where I touch as if to explain what you feel. I will come to you as pure light, turn to warmth on your skin. ///// This poem was previously published in Poem. ////// Matthew J. Spireng is a frequent contributor to Lightwood. You can read addition poems by him and a review of one of his books by scrolling to our Search button and entering his name. Matthew J. Spireng’s 2019 Sinclair Poetry Prize-winning book Good Work was published in 2020 by Evening Street Press. An 11-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he is the author of two other full-length poetry books, What Focus Is and Out of Body, winner of the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award, and five chapbooks. He was the winner of The MacGuffin’s 23rd Annual Poet Hunt Contest in 2018 and the 2015 Common Ground Review poetry contest. Website: matthewjspireng.com.
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