Blue Striped Shirt Poem by Allan Eppler

I found one morning an angel's hair,

long and translucent and

so near invisible, nearly

straight but, with a curl

at the end



It rested near the left collar

of my shirt, the white one,

with blue stripes going

North to South

two buttons on each

cuff,

my favorite shirt



Dancing for hours on the

breeze of my exhalations

til day's end and resting there

still, on that shirt,

in the dark of my closet