Issue 11
Roam
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
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Fog Walk
Gray threads of tule fog lift
from the soaked orchard, weave
around the booted feet
of a man walking, hooded
head bent over a newspaper
from the box by the road.
Lost in headlines, he fails to notice
the three-year-old slip from his side.
The boy angles off through misty aisles
between walnut trees, white dog
bounding over the ground fog,
tail pluming its white flag.
Intent on his escape, the child roams
deeper into the grove, disappears
just as his father realizes he is gone.
In the lane a shout wavers over the fog,
melts in the mist. From the heart of the trees
a wobbling reply, lost in the updraft.
A woof, then a series of barks,
guides the father through a ghost landscape
to the child seated on soaking grass,
eyes large, mouth a circle of wonder
at the new world the fog led him to find.
~Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Patricia Wellingham-Jones is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, author of Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer, Apple Blossoms at Eye Level, and Welcome, Babies as well as editor of Labyrinth: Poems & Prose. She has been published widely in print and online journals and anthologies. Email.
© 2003 by Patricia Wellingham-Jones. All Rights Reserved.
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