Memories by Rose Menyon Heflin
Distant mountains echo,
Thunderous,
In my heart.
Meanwhile, my mind
Sways gently
To looming branches
Concealed within my
Mental fog.
Unable to grasp them,
To climb,
I am left,
Forlornly
On the ground,
My heartbeat
Eroding slowly
With each passing year
And every falling teardrop.
Rose Menyon Heflin is a poet and artist from Wisconsin who loves nature. Her camera is named Nessie after the Loch Ness Monster, and her machete is named Carmen after the opera protagonist. Among other venues, her work has recently been published or is forthcoming in Bramble, The Closed Eye Open, Eastern Structures, The Light Ekphrastic, Littoral Magazine, Plum Tree Tavern, Red Alder Review, Sparked Literary Magazine, and Visual Verse,