Issue 12
Edge
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
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Edge
Spring's dirty snow, speckled
with red lava sand and sun-pocked,
rims the two-lane road
across the Sierras.
Clinging to the narrow white line
between roadway and 300 foot drop
a bicyclist holds steady
in the logging truck's wake.
He pedals his dogged way
up the mountain, bike loaded
with extra tires, red bedroll,
tire pump, a bag of bread and salami.
Surprise in my eyes,
I blink at the man
grizzled with gray who appears
in my rearview mirror.
~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.
© Copyright 2003 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.