Chasing Stars
I’ve been losing sleep
following the celestial trail
I can’t quite reach
Each one glimmers,
promising something beyond
but the clock steals time, laughing
as my feet pound hard
against life’s rhythm,
slipping on dreams
dripping from damp pockets
across the velvet night sky,
Everything I want
like catching fireflies: both too close and too far
E Kraft is a poetry editor whose poems have been nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize and published by The Hanging Loose Press, The National Poetry Quarterly, and others. She is grateful for everyone who has read her poems or attended her readings, including her favorite dog from the local shelter.