by Katherine West
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| American Dream, mixed media in resin artwork by Raphael Mazzucco. |
"I have a dream... we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood." —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1963
Last night I dreamed of rain
It overflowed the culverts
It washed out the road in waves
Like a sea in the desert
It filled the arroyos like a lover
Or the tide before love the opening
Before the opening the flower
Dreaming of the bee dreaming
Of pollen generations of honey
The wealth of the hive
And the queen humming
Her birth song of infinite flight
Over a globe of no boundaries
One garden all colors
A palette of rainy territories
Mixing new shades forgetting borders
Katherine West is the author of three collections of poetry and one novel: Scimitar Dreams, The Bone Train, Riddle, and Lion Tamer, respectively. She has had poetry published in Bombay Gin, Lalitamba, Tanka Journal, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, and TheNewVerse.News who nominated her poem "And Then the Sky" for a Pushcart Prize in 2019. She lives in the mountains outside of Silver City, New Mexico where she translates Mexican revolutionary poetry and creates custom, hand-made poetry chapbooks.