The Way Light Stays

by Kai Hoffman-Krull 
  
The rain on the windshield 
slows enough for me to see 
a small pond to the west.
A barn light across the way 
presses itself across the water 
towards me, echoing 
out and out and out. 
As I drive past, the light bends,
turns, stays with me, 
following like a familiar 
voice I cannot remember. 


© 2009 by Kai Hoffman-Krull. All rights reserved.
Kai Hoffman-Krull lives and works at a group home for people with developmental disabilities in Tacoma, WA. His chapbook, The Space Between, comes out in the summer of 2009 (Sherwood Press). Most recently his poems have appeared in Gander Press, The Oak Bend Review, Silenced Press, The Driftwood Review, and Frostwriting.