You saw me
through another
day
I poured water
through your eyes
they
glistened
In the smog
of my mind
you gazed
hope
Sleep
did not lure you
eyes open
you hung on searching
for my blue stare
Eyes of yours
found mine
You saw me
through another
day
And
I
give
thanks
Sallie Crotty has published many places, including The Dairy Hollow Echo; The Drabble; eMerge; and Resources to Recover. The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow awarded her a residency in 2018. Sallie holds a B.A. in English from Sewanee: The University of the South and an Ed.M. from Harvard. Currently, she is pursuing her MFA at Queens University of Charlotte. She is working on a poetry collection. Her memoir Out of the Ashes: A Story of Recovery and Hope released in June 2022.
