Poetry

Passengers

Silvery in cautious steps,
deer walk out of the trees.

Someone is counting the stars, losing track.
Darkness is lumbering in the sky,
dragging canoes of clouds on thin ropes,
slippery with moondust.

We are all passengers in this light.

Martin Willitts Jr.

Martin Willitts Jr has 24 chapbooks including the Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award, The Wire Fence Holding Back the World (Flowstone Press, 2017), plus 16 full-length collections including the Blue Light Award 2019 winner, The Temporary World. His recent book is Unfolding Towards Love (Wipf and Stock, 2020).

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