one day in 1590
it was discovered that 90 men,
17 women,
and nine children
had disappeared.
they looked and looked and still no one has found them.
so I suppose losing you is no great mystery
things like this happen
one day you say
so many things
to me all at once,
that,
in a pause
I take for my turn,
answer ‘Yes’
and the light
that swells up inside your eyes
and comes bursting
into every corner of the room,
tells me I am right
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art. She resides in Graham, North Carolina, with her cats, Charlie Chaplin and Janis Joplin.
Photographer’s Note: In both poems, there is imagery of searching for answers. The speaker accepts that “It is what it is” in the first poem and finds “It is what I thought” in the second.