More good news! My poems “Always, In Returning” and “In The Cathedral” are now up at the lovely Taos Journal of Poetry & Art, along with many other beauties from writers I’ve long admired. Please do scroll through this Issue 10 to see what I mean! Many thanks to editors Cathy Strisik and Veronica Golos!
You can read them here: http://www.taosjournalofpoetry.com/always-in-returning/ – “In the Cathedral” is on the next page.
A couple of hundred miles up the coast
two weeks into a summer of cruising
we end our day of fishing with a movie.
But the shouting and shooting carve sharp
initials into the tree-deep silence here,
so I step outside, right onto the glittering
dance floor of an olive-black sky
on a clear, good night. My mind whirls,
words falling far away, then my fears,
then even the best of the best in me, all
dwarfed by this lavish sprinkling of stars:
confetti of the gods, tossed long ago upon
a lifted veil—marrying me now to the
faintest glimmer of worlds beyond ours.
I gaze, it seems forever, a moth burning
to remember a dream wings can’t forget.
I am thrilled to have this poem nominated for the Best of the Net 2017 Anthology by editor Cristina Norcross of the Blue Heron Review, where it appeared July 2016!
She bangs her son’s runners together,
turns them over.
Sand falls and falls.
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roadside: all day,
teens in school uniforms
come, heap flowers
***
an old ladder
climbs a small embankment,
steps into the sky
***
in the glade’s cloaked silence
the shade-soaked song of
one bird plays
***
snapdragons clutched
by a rock wall:
mustard on an old man’s face
***
up from a cloud of gravel
peeks the half-moon
of a tire
***
opening the door:
a moth flutters in,
darkness too
***
the pen dips
into a small well of ink:
one by one, stars appear
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Thought I’d change things up with a few haiku, first published in North Shore Magazine. I’ve missed writing them! More to come….
Lynne Burnett 