EMMA AYLOR, "NORTH HILLS" (Issue 17)

NORTH HILLS

I am cracking the egg in my

hand on my chest a thousand ways

today, on the bench I like by

the pansies. What was there

felt all for me, the time of morning

between rush hour and lunch

break, all but the backed-in delivery trucks

gone still and inside. A warm wind started

stirring that felt closer to nature

than to the office buildings, as if

coming up from some creek. I wished

to hear a train whistle for the simple

papered unfolding of longing a person feels

going anyplace good and strange. I am missing

this place early and too easily; where it used

to be I’d hold it all closed I’ve instead

extended this open space in me out.

ABOUT THE POET

Emma Aylor is the author of the chapbook Twos (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Her poems have appeared inHandsome, the Adirondack Review, Two Serious Ladies, Vinyl, and elsewhere.

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