What Is Real?
 
It isn’t really
real is it?
until someone
else sees it?
it isn’t, is it?
so I am safe
a snail curled
tight in its shell
a camouflaged
katydid green
wings spreading
like spring leaves 
a solitary possum
on a rain-drubbed
road, playing
dead
to stay
alive
guarded secrets
silently devouring
like a sea cucumber
not real until
you see
me please
see me

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Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and The Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.

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