Sandra Kolankiewicz, author of the poetry chapbook Turning Inside Out, has a new poem, “The Acrobat,” in the October Issue of Red Ochre Lit. It begins:
Of course you are terrified,
your breath gone, heart in your ears
like a dull adz thumping the branch
you can’t split, that pins
your joy to the ground,
torn from the tree that you climbed
the day you first learned
you had wings.
Read the entire poem here, and buy a copy of Turning Inside Out here.
