There’ll be a day my boy becomes a man; imposing wonderment inside a narrow line− beyond the road that disappears ahead, one path where truth and reverie entwine more challenging than mommies dare to say as disappointment looms in evening’s sky where once a wish was made upon a star, if only it were easier… and I am just a girl beneath this mother’s form where miracles have flourished in […]
Amy Neill Bebergal | Selected poems
Two Spacewalking Astronauts He’d had a dream, come looking for us, maybe but we three could no longer fit in a double, so they’d traded. The switch must have happened when I was asleep, in a dream of a whole other story, for when I turned half-circle in my trench, there lay a smaller, ropier version of my husband— little head, my coloring, gracing the pillow. In a […]
Jenean McBrearty | Big Ugly Moose
I LEFT ATLANTA after my father died of influenza, and my mother married Dr. Campbell. He got offered a position at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Ottawa, and claimed, “There’s no room for the boy there, Carolyn. And with our baby coming…” “What’ll I do with him, Leslie? Put him in a military academy?” I held my breath. Mother was in love and would have done anything for […]
Wendy Schmidt | Huckleberry Smile
Charming young boy, with the huckleberry smile, and barefoot manners. Such bright-eyed brilliance, in wild summer days, and carefree hours. Nothing unexplored, each small landscape, calling for fresh adventure. Swift, shining child, flying through sunlit fields, dancing on butterfly breezes. Be still for a moment, listen to the rustle, of wind swept branches. Nature’s ancient voice, speaking through rushing rapids, singing a prairie poem. […]
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