Everlasting A single raindrop falls, seeps through grass and soil and rock, is pulled by the sunlit hand of God into thirsty roots, up, up, up through xylem and stoma into the womb of a cloud, to be born again, life everlasting beyond the reach of priest or prayer
Brian Kates holds a Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Award and Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Spirit Fire Review, Paterson Literary Review, Broadkill Review, Banyan Review, Third Wednesday, Common Ground and other journals. He lives with his wife in a house in the woods in the lower Hudson Valley.
Amethyst Review 