The Light Tears Loose
Every now and then/ I see a sunset / and I want to crawl inside of myself / and match that kind of glowing. —James Diaz
Evening sun divides the horizon,
shadows whispering the lawn,
that last blaze burning the sky.
The air sparks –
the cosmos no longer contains me,
and my soul twists in longing . . .
A bend in the road surprises with fields of poppies –
awe swelling when I breathe wren-song,
listen to violets unfolding.
And when the light finally flares, then disappears,
I am the craggy mountain, the grain of sand
lapped into the ocean. An ember
arcing, illuminating the deep.
KB Ballentine’s fifth collection, Almost Everything,
Almost Nothing, was published in 2017 by Middle Creek Publishing.
Published in Crab Orchard Review and Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal,
among others, her work also appears in anthologies including In Plein
Air (2017) and Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace (2017).
Learn more at www.kbballentine.com.
