Today I spent a lot of time at my desk, trying to organize my desk, my files and myself! I didn't get as far as hoped, it's so easy to get distracted when I find something interesting. I have a file of correspondence with the late Alan Yount, our wonderful KHS65 poet, a great pal. In that folder, which needed refiling elsewhere, was a letter to me dated 12/14/18 containing 4 poems which had recently been published in the "Featured Writer and Poet" section of WestWard Quarterly, Summer '18 issue. Here is a shortish one which I like and thought I'd share. I'll add the others some other time when I need a distraction. RIP Alan
Power, Praying, Places
I open & put my arms on the windowsill.
As you look out, you can feel the sensation
where other people have stood...& felt the shared
power, or something else coming from this house
where other people have lived...
like standing in front of an old sailing ship's wheel
where so many sailors have stood: looking out, over the
ocean to search out where they were going.
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