Effet de Nuit some evenings as light succumbs to the cusp of night ghosts call to ghosts I stand on the dock watch the waves releasing their woes like the outline of your body in my bed the surge and shrink of your breath like sea mist kissing tide translates into phantom currents pulling you away cresting into echoes of vapor I yearn to will you back from horizon back from edge of world but I can only unhitch my wish open these fists let fly an offering to wind and spume a small coal of hope a carmine glow mirrors sharp bright sorrow lost to the fog Kari Ann Ebert Kari Ann Ebert is the Poetry & Interview editor for The Broadkill Review and the Project Director of Downtown Dover Poetry Weekend. Winner of the 2020 Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry, the 2019 Crossroads Ekphrastic Writing Contest, and 2018 Gigantic Sequins Poetry Contest, Kari’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Mojave River Review, Philadelphia Stories, Main Street Rag, The Ekphrastic Review, and Gargoyle as well as several anthologies. She has been awarded fellowships from Delaware Division of the Arts (2020), The Shipman Agency (2020), BOAAT Press (2020), and Brooklyn Poets (2019).
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May 2025
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