On the last day
when you leave and I follow silently
twisting my hands to pick the yellow roses
near the stairs, our star will be climbing up
behind us to the ceiling and bursting
in a glare of red fire-shoots to the sky.
Marilyn Marsh Noll earned her MFA in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, D.C. in 1994. Her poems have appeared in the Comstock Review, Folio, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Potter's Wheel, Voices from the Attic, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Bones, won the Pennsylvania Poetry Society Chapbook Award in 2007. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
