Heedless

Written By Amanda Barusch

Heedless we whirl over ground so green

and I bounce

like a red rubber ball I caroom

off your back

teeter

and flop to the ground so soft.

Breathless we sprawl

watch the still swimming clouds

under blue so blue

even daffodils approve.

 

[for Norma Pino]

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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