Poem of the Week

Ed Skoog is the author of three poetry collections, Mister Skylight, Rough Day, and Run the Red Lights (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). His many awards include the poetry prize from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

The Empty House Next Door

by Ed Skoog

It stood across a narrow side alley
where light-green ivy grew.
Almost mirrored, not quite uncanny,
the window halfway up the stairs
looked out on theirs, a slight curtain.

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