IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
I was awakened by a shadowy figure
dancing on my bedroom wall to music
I recognized as the tune my wife loved.
This dancer made the same idiosyncratic
moves that I used to watch and applaud.
It could only be my wife who vanished
as soon as I put the lights on. Was that
a visit from the other side or maybe I was
hallucinating because I was dressed like an
orangutan monkey?