It's July, it's an overcast, grey day.
The sable-haired woman standing, smoking,
at the kitchen sink
has disappeared.
They haven't pasted up
the missing posters yet:
She is iridescent & elusive;
she's untied her apron.
There's low cloud cover.
Her husband looks straight through her
as he helps himself to scrambled eggs;
(he thinks she's cleaning the bathroom,
again).
Michelle McGrane was born in Zimbabwe and spent her childhood in Malawi. She is a freelance writer, reviewer and poet and the English poetry editor of the South African literary site, LitNet (www.litnet.co.za). Her poetry has been published in local literary journals and internationally in the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada and the United States.