Emily D. staring out her picture windowthe quill chillsafter touching the frozen padmelts as it beltsout a chain of wordsthat tie a poet to a callingi..
Alliancea black mountain poetlives in the soft hillsof a Southern Illinois regionwriting words on cumulus paperthe pen soarsthe mountains get smallerl..
sand in my synonymsdead poemsthe stillness of simileis much like a quiet harborlacking metaphorstied to the dockby the entrance of a tideunder whichde..