~In Between~

you leave
me talking
to a blank space
and I
never really
know where
you are

I feel
as nervous
as a
cat in
a roomful
of rocking chairs
but I
don't know
what to
feel exactly

this strange in between
an pause
in the silence
leaves me
wanting
toiling in
an uncountable stillness

maple lattes
and new journals
fresh ink and paper in the biting cold
only my breath
yields

~Sarah Mahina Calvello