Three Poems
Karissa Knox Sorrell Adam and Eve It was the night we slept under leaves, green waves floating down on us, covering our faces, our skin glistening with dew or sweat stars peeking through a churning kaleidoscope of shadow and green, and you looked at me with less than purity in the morning they wanted to find us but we were woven so deep within roots we could not be seen The Boulevard (A Found Poem) Even his parents left everything free to watch endless nature trails found on corkboards for which the sea is now turning. Entering from the rear door, the silence between one Rome and another, conducive for love, for drinks, more drinks. The perimeters are open for us to meet unique trees, cut by sunrays and more competitive sunrays. We find a fish on the disc golf course, a small exhibit, a life drawing, a revision of caution. On the boulevard, we lean together over cups of tea. Luminescence Inside the body of the world there lives a vine that awakens in footprints and rootprints, that touches our suffering that heals the broken earth that intertwines our pulses until our breaths carry a new seed within them. While we sleep rain saturates the land and in the morning a luminescence tunnels through fog. I want to be the world, freshly washed. |
About the author:
Karissa Knox Sorrell is a writer, poet, and ESL educator from Nashville, Tennessee. Her poetry and non-fiction have previously been published in journals such as Silver Birch Press, Flycatcher, Parable Press, San Pedro River Review, Cactus Heart, and St. Katherine Review. Her poetry chapbook, Evening Body, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Karissa works for Metro Nashville Public Schools training and mentoring ESL teachers. |