More good news! My poem VANISHING POINT is now live in the “Upheavals” issue of Wordrunners e-chapbooks. Many thanks to editor Jo-Anne Rosen for selecting it. Here is another link to the chapbook content in full, where you can read some of the other wonderful writings or download the entire book for free: Upheavals
daffodils:
a glory of suns
within hand’s reach
***
the arbutus twists
through shadows to catch the light,
shape leaves
***
pouring
from their long green stems:
one red, one white tulip
***
fogbank:
a lonely ridge of trees
has scaled the heavens
***
in a restaurant:
tables apart, blue eyes
feast on brown
***
downtown lunch hour:
all my faces
streaming by
***
How do you open the bottle
when you are
that which is poured?
These also appeared in North Shore Magazine many many moons ago.
She bangs her son’s runners together,
turns them over.
Sand falls and falls.
***
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
***
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 