Editor’s Note: O eye skipping slipping past, do you catch it, the light on the leaf-lip, the hush in the hush between wingflits? Web quivers, river exhales, a petal unlatches, tumbling slow slow slow. Blink and it’s gone, blink and it’s always there. Time’s a trickster, slipping through cracks, pooling in the small seen things. Look now—look again—not to name, not to snatch, but to let it spill into you, endless.
Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet with roots in the BVI and USVI who began writing in 1996. You can find her work in her Kindle book, “Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt,” in Pulse Poetry Magazine, on her blog, Words of Ribbon, and on the Visual Verse and Micromance Magazine websites. She was nominated for a 2024 National Spoken Words Award for Best International Artist and won the 2024 Read Yuh Ting TOO Virtual Caribbean Poetry Contest.
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