September 21st, 2025
Winner: Weekly Poems Contest #12
by Betsy Kahn
It just happened again.
Getting off the airplane
after a long, beautiful trip,
my mind's eye conjured
that comforting moment of homecoming
walking through the door
looking forward to my own bed
but I had rolled the suitcase into the wrong house.
The burned down one,
a phantom limb.
Biography of the Poet
Betsy Kahn is a retired school librarian and amateur musician who lives in southern California.
Her home, neighborhood, synagogue, and town burned down in the Eaton Fire in January 2025.
She is a lifelong writer and a new poet whose work has been published in Tiny Moments, Vol. III, Bronze Bird Books,
and on her own website, www.betsykahn.com.
Previously Published in Weekly Poems:
"It's September!" by Joseph C. Ogbonna
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