Published in Wax Poetry Art Weekly Poems Contest
Winner: Weekly Poems Contest #12
Coming Home
by Betsy Kahn
It just happened again.
Getting off the airplane
after a long, beautiful trip,
my mind’s eye conjured
that comforting moment of homecoming
walking through the door
looking forward to my own bed
but I had rolled the suitcase into the wrong house.
The burned down one,
a phantom limb.