NEW POEM: ON MY WAY HOME FEATURED IN PINESTRAW & O'HENRY MAGAZINES
- fergiela01
- Oct 30
- 1 min read
I'm excited to have my new poem "On the Way Home" featured in this month's PINESTRAW MAGAZINE, which serves eastern North Carolina, my home state. It will also appear in O'HENRY, their sister (or brother) magazine, as well.
On the Way Home
from my father’s funeral,
a mime is performing on the corner,
laid out on the concrete like a corpse,
pulling herself up with an invisible rope
as if hope were a cliff to climb,
then levitates over a pretend chair
as if preparing to eat, drinking
an empty glass of air, her palms
bringing into being the nuanced
shape of bread to be broken.
I sit on the edge of a scrap of plywood,
a makeshift seat, perch as if on a ledge
heeding the gravity of all the unsaid.
Everything her eyes imply is about
the last meal I shared with my father.
“Do you hear me?” she hints
with her hands that have
become her voice, her frown
a phrase, a black drawn-on tear
a lost syllable, then,
as though life were something tangible,
sets up an imaginary ladder,
points to a nebulous cloud
she intends to reach, waving goodbye
as she begins to climb into the sky.
— Linda Annas Ferguson
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