In Our Story
enclosed within
the high grey wall of late years
miles of words shift underfoot
clouds creak and groan
maps fail a horizontal plain
landmarks vanish
geography bends
in this punch of a story
gods beg devotion
as they thin the herd
time is a ghosted guide
weightlessly wandering the future
taking us where we least expect
Unvarnished
my mother said
when the morning sky is pink
the circus will come to town
my mother never explained
moon splattered stories
laid out frame by frame
edges smoothed and tucked away
my mother never believed
the hazy terrain of
theories
diagnoses
predictions
my mother trusted
life's murky plot
held in service
of an unvarnished reality
my mother expected
night to fall hard
the circus
to move on
CP
Les
Bernstein lives with her very large family in Mill Valley, CA. She has been
published in publications in the U.S. and Europe. She has two chapbooks
published by Finishing Line Press. This info is as personal as it gets.
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