Big thanks to Editors Stacia Lynn Reynolds and Nilavro Nill Shoovro of Our Poetry Archive for publishing my three poems today.

https://ourpoetryarchive.blogspot.com/2018/05/linda-imbler.html

REAL LIFE

(For You, Stephen Hawking)

My soul’s greatest peace lies somewhere beyond the moon.

In time, I will travel to that place and settle there.

For now, only in my mind may I visit,

and upon each returning, I become more convinced

that I exist now only in a shadowland, as if behind a sheet,

set up for a puppet theater.

I am a silhouette and all I see are the same.

When I, once and for all, can walk through that realm

and touch the things that provide its array,

I will experience the first reality I've ever had.