Issue 6: David Filer

by Paula Lietz

from Weather Notes

-- Portland Oregon

blue sky  February

even the east

wind   stops

to look

suddenly  everyone is

somewhere

else

looking at spades

looking

at the ground

hope rises it

has been held   down

so long

a voice  in that

brief  bright

stillness

a different day

now

a different light

happiness lasts

that   instant

David Filer lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Marlene Anderson, who created and directs The Imani Project, an AIDS prevention and orphan support program in eastern Kenya. He has recent work in Third Wednesday, Slant and Red River Review, and has authored two chapbooks: Night Verse (Finishing Line Press 2005) and The Landscape There (Stone City Press 2009).

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