O Michael tonight
I am dreaming of you.
We trace night with
our fingers climbing
ladders of darkness
past the full moon.
Over silver light into
star light we dance
through air redolent
with lilacs. Your eyes
glow like burning comets
as we waltz over clouds.
O Michael tonight
I dreamed of you and
woke to find you
sleeping at my side.
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary zines such as Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, Halcyon Days and included in Bright Hills Press, Kind of A Hurricane Press and Poppy Road Review anthologies. She has been nominated four times for Best of the Net.