Barefoot Desert

Fiction & Poetry
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – Barefoot Desert

  • Author – Amanda Barusch

  • Genre – Poetry

  • Type – Poem

  • Publication Date – October 16, 2014

  • Publisher – Stone Path Review (UK)

  • Medium – Magazine

  • Available at – Stone Path Review (via MagCloud)

  • Link – https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/823370?__r=322616

  • PDF – Stone Path Review Fall 2014

  • Source Text:

    Barefoot Desert

    Morning clouds flame but the cold hills

    insist on shadow. Faces of indigo stone

    clutch the snow in their creases. A child’s feet could still

    warm the earth, wake the meadow, and know

    the path of each skylit memory. Instead, she will

    tiptoe away from the dark mountain frown

    to dance barefoot in the desert sun

    and share honey dates with a black-necked swan.

  • Audio

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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