Rest on the rocks,
feel their reassuring solidity,
take a deep breath to still
the panic that rises like bile,
recite the litany
against fear
and imagine
Sisyphus happy.
At the Crossroads
Agnes Vojta grew up in Germany and now lives in Rolla, where she teaches at Missouri S&T. Her work has been published in the Gasconade Review, Poetry Quarterly, Southwinds, and elsewhere.