sara Etgen-Baker Poet Free verse

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poem submitted to "Deviants and Devine" poetry contest, Silent One, sponsor, July 31, 2026

PALE GEOMETRY

She walks into a room  
and the light recalibrates~  
not brighter,  
just more attentive,  
as though it has found  
something it has been trying  
to illuminate for years.  

People don’t know how to label her.  
Some say albino,
some say freak,
some say different,  
some say rare,  
a few say nothing at all  
because language feels too clumsy  
for someone who seems drafted  
from the margin of the visible.  

Her skin is a quiet astonishment,  
a pale that isn’t absence  
but a kind of presence~  
the way frost is present,  
the way moonlight is present,  
the way silence can be present  
when it’s listening.  

Children stare at her  
with the frankness adults have forgotten.  
They see the shimmer first,  
the soft divergence,  
the way her hair catches daylight  
like a handful of spun glass.  

She has learned to move gently  
through the world,  
not to hide,  
but because brightness  
is a delicate thing,  
and she carries it everywhere.  

When she smiles,  
the moment feels slightly rearranged~  
as if the ordinary has stepped aside  
to make room  
for whatever she is.  

Not divine,  
not deviant, 
not anything the old words claim~  
pale geometry,
luminous,  
in the way a rare phenomenon is luminous,  
in the way a deviation  
can become its own kind of truth.

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