“Over the Top” © Bonnie Matthews Brock
An April Sunset
As a new spring finally arrives,
a bluejay hunts for bugs
in a nearby tree.
Although it’s still cold,
he’d like to eat,
if he wants to live.
I’d walk in the woods,
but the trail still has snow,
and a sun thin as papier mache
drops like the end of a play.
In years gone by,
my friends were the actors,
who said what they could.
Then suddenly there was
nothing left to say.
Who can tell me why
each life must end this way?
George Freek’s poem Enigmatic Variations was recently nominated for Best of the Net. His poem “Night Thoughts” was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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.