What Can I Say About Eating Raisins During the Storm? – a poem by Laura E. Garrard

What Can I Say About Eating Raisins During the Storm?

I’m not confident
            the storm’s end has come.
It hasn’t flattened my home
            nor tattered my hope.
All will ride the rainbow
            to the other side,
We don’t know when.
            The present wind, 
            no matter
            direction
            is now my friend.	
None of us controls weather
            and fear is a lying dictator.
Let my master be the one
            who’s always been there with me
            even in the dismantling.
Living on the edge, I look directly into the sun.

Author Laura E. Garrard is also an artist and CranioSacral Therapist on the U.S. Northwest Peninsula, where she enjoys time with nature. Her poem, “Filled to the Brim,” appeared in Amethyst Press’s Thin Places & Sacred Spaces anthology. She is a member of Olympic Peninsula Authors and has received four scholarships from Centrum Writers Conference. Her poetry and prose have been published in journals like Bellevue Literary Review, The Madrona Project, Silver Birch, and TulipTree Review, which recently awarded her a Merit Prize. She writes a cancer poetry series, Poetry That Fits, on Penn Medicine’s OncoLink.org.