FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: REMEMBER WHEN Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words remember and/or when, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on April 19th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Remember When will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 20th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Alicia Mathias


REVELATION

i stand upon the bridge of the Erie Canal, gazing into its half—frozen creek, where sunrise softens, through early morning fog, while i wade through this mist, adrift; wondering if i am dead, and just don't know it— where i hear many voices of ghosts that float around me; dustings of snow, kicked up by howling winds, carried in by a cold front; i blow on my naked hands, trying to warm them up, and i was just thinking, that i would give almost anything, to have you back, walking beside me, again; my arm around your waist, and your hand, warm-cupped inside my back jeans pocket; the air between us flickering— with endless kisses, yet to come

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