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# Hide and Seek
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- Published: 2026-05-22T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T17:37:00.000Z
- Author: Staff
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*by Bobbie Lee Lovell*

I always found the best places —  
contorted inside a mildewy box,  
or stiff as the King’s Guard  
in a coat closet, inhaling perfume  
  
and stale smoke. I’d shrink into  
my own head and stay monk-silent  
as It came nosing around, until,  
lonely and bored, I’d give up because  
  
hiding is not winning, and seekers  
are not saviors. I learned to bide time  
and to hide in plain sight, filled pages  
of looseleaf, then trashed them.  
  
I’m still adept at riding things out —  
storm after storm — am easily busied  
with work and words. The question is:  
when to emerge? It might be too soon  
  
or too late. Can statues imagine  
movement? Can ice fathom steam?  
There’s courage and shame in un-hiding:  
reborn to this same tarnished life.

> Bobbie Lee Lovell works as a graphic designer and helps coordinate the Poetry Unlocked reading series in Appleton.  
> More at bobbielovell.com/poetry.