I am thrilled that my poem "The Sharp Cut" was chosen by Northern Narratives for publication in Issue 6! It touches on a feeling that has only pierced deeper with the passing of the years.
“The children who swallow the star are the poets—
like Yeats or Tolkien—who become wanderers
between two worlds.”–Colin Wilson
I throw these words out
like ground-down diamond dust
for all the children who once
gleefully gulped star beams,
and yet now find their shadows
time-bound, stretching far and away
into grown-up bones and days
where worn skin barely holds heart
inside anymore—
Just don’t forget
the sharp cut of clean rays
across the glad blue of you, or the slide
of starlight through dark and dreams
thick with possibility and the rich
twinkle of questions
once—
You dared to ask the universe.
*If you can still wonder,
you may wander
yet again.