You spent all winter
ignoring the city bells
as you said with a yearning yet determined
glint in your eyes as you
told me how you liquefied
from the previous spring and summer
to return again to sing your purple melodies
with their wooden voices,
the clanking caterwaul of jelly jars
where you stored the warm melodies
for your phantasmagorical trek.
And you have returned to gut the gray sky
so we won’t have to sit as the cold silence
breezes like a hole in the dark rhythm of frigidity.
But the shade of hope in your eyes
strangely and suddenly began to express
your belief that fear fades when April skies
brag their warm gloamings
as the length of the light
extends into a seeming eternity
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Waiting On
by Heath Brougher
Bio- Heath Brougher is the Editor-in-Chief of Concrete Mist Press and co-poetry editor of Into the Void, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Awards for Best Magazine. He received Taj Mahal Review’s 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. He was also awarded the 2020 Wakefield Prize for Poetry. He has published 12 books and, after spending over four years editing the work of others, is ready to get back into the creative driver's seat for a bit. He has four books forthcoming in 2023 and 2024.
