Jeanne Allison
Longing
In the soft slow space
between the shells of obligation,
for a moment of escape
to the tiny park down the street
where there's a sand pit
my feet want to sink into.
On my way, I met god
in a whisper, caught
in a fresh breeze of silence
rustling through weeds
on a scraggly path not meant
for catching anything.
Flapping birds' wings
stole my attention
and the whisper was gone.
Bio
Jeanne Allison lives and teaches in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has appeared in the Write Launch, Skylight47 (an Irish literary journal), Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry, Under the Basho, Liminal Women Anthology, Examined Life Journal, the and Haiku Path in the Holmes County Open Air Art Museum.