El Far (The Lighthouse) There’s a woman inside the lantern room. Her hair blinks whitely. She has lived inside the glass for decades on air on light on visions of clouds banking the horizon. She has nothing to do with what happens at the small table and two chairs behind her in the dusk which lasts for hours in summer in this latitude. She’s aligned with the meeting place of air and ocean, doesn’t care about the ghosts of dark green plants, didn’t see the man and woman who went in to throw off their white robes. A ship’s light rides too close to where her spectral locks give warning, but she can’t help what self-destructs behind her or below. Penelope Moffet Penelope Moffet’s most recent chapbook is It Isn’t That They Mean to Kill You (Arroyo Seco Press, 2018). Her poems have been published in Natural Bridge,Permafrost, Pearl, The Rise Up Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Verse-Virtual, The Missouri Review and other literary journals, as well as in a number of anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles and works as a legal secretary.
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