​Untitled (Village Street Scene), by Mary Kay Delaney

​Untitled (Village Street Scene)

after Untitled (Village Street Scene), by Beauford Delaney (USA) 1948. View in above video at 1:35. 

a woman’s shadow-arm extends

poised to open a door 
Who is she meeting so quietly? 

Above, blue clouds
pause 
rains blur bricks on lamplit streets 

carry candy wrapper boats, flower petal rafts,
cigar nubs, drug store receipt, a button

Resting in bubbles against sidewalks, 
puddles whisper promises

Mary Kay Delaney

Mary Kay Delaney, Ph.D., is an educator and poet who finds herself in Denver, CO after three decades of living in North Carolina. She served as professor of education at Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, and as visiting clinical professor at the University of Denver, She is a 2022 graduate of the Poetry Collective, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver. She spends her days talking to her dog, walking, reading, writing, editing, resisting, and making. Find her poetry in The Ekphrastic Review, Professing Education, and Cathexis Northwest Press.