Nights

The curtains stripped from the rod.

Just the night-things, the window
and self left to deal.

I suspect this is done, alone.

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Leslie Contreras Schwartz is a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and the 2019–2021 Houston Poet Laureate. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Black Dove / Paloma Negra (FlowerSong Press, 2020).