Something to Do on a Dark, Windy Day

By Michelle Pichon


When the day is dark
and the wind is blowing
hard and continuously
through the trees
bending them
like blades of grass
go outside
close your eyes
and imagine the sound
is a crowd
screaming
cheering
just

for you



moons and flowers bloom

I held your hand
and you felt something
alive in me
your blind eyes saw beneath my skin
what I was not ready to perceive
your glowing face and shining laughter
embraced the light in me
and blessed it with your touch
I held your hand
and felt your moon
alive in you
alive in me
your blind eyes masking your real sight
where visions are bright
and dance and sing in chorus
all around you
we held hands
and flowers grew between them
you said it was good

and I finally saw it too


Copyright © Michelle Pichon. All rights reserved.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR  
Michelle Pichon is a Louisiana Creole with roots in Slidell and Isle Brevelle, Louisiana. Teaching English at Northwestern State University is her bread and butter but poetry is her chocolate cake and Sauvignon Blanc at the end of the day. She has previously been published in Country Roads, Xavier Review, and Louisiana English Journal. She is co-founder of Down River Art Gang (DRAG) where she and her friends put on killer multi-cultural, multi-genre art shows and other events. 


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Artichokes and Jade Bones

By Kim Shuck

We run along the coast our
Kid feet still wet with
Willingness we
Run alongside the
Staccato rails that
Vanish and appear in
Tufts of indigenous
Shrubs and stands of weed
Eucalyptus we
Strawberry and
Artichoke we
Chase flotillas of
Brown pelican and
Dance to our own childhoods
Of beach and driftwood not
Replanted here but of this
Strange and colonial
Place so
Surface patchwork but the jade
Bones show the tossed
Stone chewed to cheese by olive
Mussels it's a
Generous place if
Sometimes sleepy and this
Fog sings old songs too

Copyright © Kim Shuck. All rights Reserved.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 



Kim Shuck had a busy year in 2014. She had two major publications: the full length Clouds Running In from Taurean Horn Press and the Chapbook Sidewalk Ndn from FootHills Publishing. She had four poems nominated for Pushcart Prizes, both from Taurean Horn and from West Trestle Review. 





Kim also taught the usual joyfulness of second graders and fifth graders, a joyfulness being her suggested collective noun for fantastic students one of whom drew this portrait.



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