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Travelogue

July 15, 2017 Lana Bella

 

TRAVELOGUE

 

what September sun there is,
low and walnut pale, clings to
the press of wool on her back—
she strips off the country coat,
eyes move with voltaic arcs of
fingers light as seafoam across
the grounds—like a tame, muted
shadow, she walks the length of
flowering trees and honeysuckle
bushes, laughing with erstwhile
daffodil-teeth, desiring ripened
breath of hot soil and dandelions
imperiled in harvest of weeds,
a symphony of verdant foil—and
when the sky milks over the palms
of her hands, slim and wispy, she
is no longer sure of the overhead
haze, the clutching roses, the feral
horses, but of her sighs tasted of
salt, grey skin autumn cold, feet
going wooden over earth from which
she becomes all at once invisible—

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About Lana Bella

A three-time Pushcart Prize & Bettering American Poetry nominee, Lana Bella is an author of three chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016), Adagio (Finishing Line Press, 2016), and Dear Suki: Letters (Platypus 2412 Mini Chapbook Series, 2016), has had poetry and fiction featured with over 390 journals, 2River, Acentos Review, California Quarterly, Comstock Review, Expound, Grey Sparrow, Ilanot Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, San Pedro River Review, Waccamaw, Word/For Word, among others, and work to appear in Aeolian Harp Anthology, Volume 3. Lana resides in the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever-frolicsome imps.

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