About the Feature

Addressing the morning I say
It was good of you to come
…………………………………….as if
it were the sole visitor amidst scandal
when in fact
………………….it has been endless
with the trees and grass and cars
and the cowbell someone’s using
as a wind chime
……………………….in the winds
just remnants of the storm
that wouldn’t stay
…………………………I have thought
to run away from what I own
who hasn’t
………………..but what else do I have
where would I go
……………………….The sky is everywhere
at once like a big movie
and though I think I know how
it’s going to end
……………………..and with what music
there is uncertainty enough
to hold me still

About the Author

Heather Christle is the author of What Is Amazing, The Difficult Farm, and The Trees The Trees, which won the 2012 Believer Poetry Award. She is the web editor for Jubilat and teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.