Was it a golden eagle
or the hope for an eagle that divided June with it’s glacial retreat to the mountain side. watched this unusual visitor and easily convinced myself that such wings belong to belief, that I am the blessed witness. But perhaps I am just giving a kite an inflated ego. The possible-eagle disappeared into mountain myths we make when yearning. Published in Dawntreader #53, January 2021
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Summer Storm Over Interlaken
I watched the storm arrive through the rented apartment window, streaming blackness laced with cuts of white cloth. At the Craft Beer Brew bar on the corner, stags raised their horns and bellowed at every stab of thunder. In the street outside, dogs scurried and barked, kicking cans and howling. A tomcat snuck over the apartment walls and stood in our balcony smoking, looking up and wincing. I cuddled up against my wife, glad to have the wall and window, between us and the angry world. Then the rain fell in such furious sheets that it quieted the stags, sent the dogs scurrying away, made the cat leap back to his boundary. We threw open, and welcomed the water, the relief of all things made equal. For Iris Winking from behind Jungfrau, Iris gifts us a rare natural phenomenon: a thin smile of cloud moustached by a rainbow. An iridescent cloud. Later I learn that Iris, the Greek goddess of rainbows, has been hiding in flower beds and plain sight all my life. She’s in my eyes, coloring every moment of wonder. She brought me Styx water, and I drink from the ewer, making the oath to see more knowing If I keep my eyes closed, I will fall unconscious. This message carried in a rare phenomenon revealed after forty-four years of looking. I wonder what other secrets she will show me, hidden in eyes of stone. Published in The Brasilia Review, January 2021. |
Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
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