“1500 Pounds from Michigan” © Bonnie Matthews Brock

 

Entering the Holy

If we only say yes
to sharing our stories
with strangers, connect
to a sidewalk buster
whose violin awakens us
to the substrate of song
and silence, remember
there is room
in the frame of life
for the mundane
and the magnificent,
to puncture the heart
open, to enter that
fabled realm of holiness.

 

Diana Rosen is a flash writer, essayist, and poet whose first full-length hybrid book of flash and poetry, High Stakes & Expectations, is available from Tiny Publisher store. In addition, Diana writes about tea, coffee, honey, and everything else that tastes divine for online websites. Both her nonfiction and fiction work can be viewed on her portfolio site. She lives and works in L.A. where the largest urban green space in the country, Griffith Park,
is her “backyard”.

Bonnie Matthews Brock is a Florida-based photographer, as well a school psychologist. She loves hiking the urban and woodland trails of “anywhere” (and pausing often to shoot photos) with her very patient husband (and often collaborator), Ted. Her images have been featured on the covers of magazines such as Ibbetson Street, Wild Roof Journal, Poesy Magazine, Humana Obscura, and Arkansas Review; as well as on the pages of publications such as Oddball Magazine, Ember Chasm Review, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Beaver Magazine, and Lateral. Her works are archived at institutions such as Poets House NYC, Brown University, and Harvard University.