“The Beckoning of Light That Can Never Return” © Bill Wolak

 

It Doesn’t Turn

around. It’s pouring down
inside my walls. I paint them bright
red with cherry gloss. But like moss,
I’m flowerless and haven’t

roots. I grow in the damp. She left
her stamp on me with the palm
of her hand, burning into my
face. On my back is an imprint

of her shoe, with colors black
and blue. They match the hue
of the midnight sky. The only thing
I own that shines. She died in

her cocoon. She didn’t turn
into a flying stained glass of
orange gold. She didn’t pass on
those colors. But she did pass.

 

Sandra Wyllie has been writing poetry for the last fifteen years. She has been inspired by two great poets, Anne Sexton and Charles Bukowski. She also enjoys nature, singing, and photography. Sandra Wyllie has been published several times in Ibbetson Street Magazine and Oddball Magazine. She has self-published many of her own on Amazon under Sandra L. Wyllie. She has her own YouTube channel under the name Sandra Lee Wyllie, where she talks about mental health and nature.

Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2025 Dirty Show in Detroit, Amorous Art 2025 in Indianapolis, the 2025 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts (Chile), the 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival, and Naked in New Hope 2018. He was a featured artist in the book Best of Erotic Art (London, 2022).