March 2020
Charlie Rossiter
charliemrossiter@gmail.com
charliemrossiter@gmail.com
Bio Note: After spending most of my adult life in cities I greatly enjoy living and writing in Bennington, VT
where I host the 2nd Tuesday open mic (drop by if you're in the area), as well as the twice-monthly podcast series at www.poetryspokenhere.com.
Recent books include Winter Poems and Green Mountain Meditations, both from FootHills Publishing.
Sometimes There’s a Glimpse
Lying flat out on volcanic ash at
Craters of the Moon in Idaho,
looking up at the million million stars
standing on the National Mall surrounded
by buildings of power, tears streaming down
because the gospel choir broke on through.
Evening shadows climb slowly
up a hillside outside Taos.
Venus on the horizon, the first stars.
Somewhere a cloud reaches to a mountain,
or does the mountain reach to the cloud?
Moonlight on the water,
ocean waves along the shore,
my feet sink in wet sand.
©2020 Charlie Rossiter
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