James Lilliefors is a poet, journalist, and novelist, whose writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Washington Post, The Adirondack Review, Door Is A Jar, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, The Miami Herald and elsewhere. He is a former writing fellow at the University of Virginia.
Seduction
At dusk, the daylight
slips into something
more comfortable.
Shadows take the
shape of desire.
You watch a plane
You’re on the plane
The plane is you
There is no plane
Just like that.