By Autumn Williams
I kept dreaming of stars and I was floating.
They were disappearing from my view,
one by one, quickly.
The moon was behind where I was,
and I didn't know if it had also gone.
I wouldn't look back to see, there were too many
vanishing suns to count.
I thought about their moons,
and what their numbers might be.
I wondered if they would leave
with their extinguished suns,
or if a moon is too sturdy to slip away?
Autumn Williams is the author of two poetry books: her chapbook “Waves”, and her number-one bestselling collection “Clouds on the Ground”. Her poems have been featured in Eunoia Review, Flare Magazine, Wildscape Literary Journal, and others. She also earned a silver medal in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Her work is influenced by the chronic illness she has, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, but is often written to be universal. Williams lives in Texas with her husband and their children.
