A Love for Loneliness
by Stacy Julin
They were hours
I’ve lost track of now.
Those you glimpse
in dreams
but lose in light
of morning.
Long days
on end
in the bluish hue.
Loneliness sat with me
awhile,
then laid with me
in bed.
I let him stay
longer each visit,
unafraid
and even accustomed
to the silence he brought
as a gift.
Like the cold
that curled around me
from my cracked window,
he wrapped around my grief
and lived beside me,
until we both
longed for days
when blood was warm.
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"A Love for Loneliness" was published in my chapbook, Visiting Ghosts and Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2018). I am an only child. My parents were wonderful people, but I spent many hours alone. I would read and write, and I developed such a love for books and poetry. I came to treasure my time alone to write stories and poems. I lost my beloved parents as a young adult woman. At that point, writing really gave me peace and a way to express how I felt. This poem is about a complicated relationship with loneliness.
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STACY JULIN'S iwork has been published in Oyster River Pages, Pirene’s Fountain, Sweet Tree Review, Southern Quill, and Word Fountain, and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, A Pebble Thrown in Water (Tiger’s Eye Press, 2010), Visiting Ghosts and Ground (Finishing Line Press, 2018), and Things We Carry (Finishing Line Press, 2024). She lives with her family at the base of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains.