Faces on the Water

flowers on fire
scarecrows cover
their eyes

as long winds
spread the space
between words

evening descends
within a gray mist

and by chance
ghosts walk by

under uncounted
stars

over a field
of mischief

Dr. Roger Singer is the Poet Laureate of Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has had over 1,000 poems published on the internet, magazines, and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee. He is also the President of the Shoreline Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society.