enjoy this writing from
Alex Stolis in the free
2013 PDF file chapbook: Savage Beauty
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
Blackouts and Epiphanies
Alex Stolis
She watches
a piece of the sky fall to earth.
It’s picked up by a bird.
She feels what a warm breeze might feel like
if she were outside.
if she were in her sundress,
if it were a day in June.
A child pulls a red wagon across the street.
Desire is a memory.
The horizon is a crooked line.
The child’s mother runs into the street
takes the child’s hand, leads them back
to the house.
There is a flash of silver in the bird’s beak
as she lands in the nest.
