color sings across the hillside. retrofitted to the narrow cleft, a shadow that will last. my pocket is filled with striated stones. the river didn’t report the theft. the wind exhorts the clouds to drag the moon over the juniper. we each come alone to these astonishments: the common grackle, conversation, the heart’s peregrinations, carrying alone what is amiss. it can only be carried.
color sings across the hillside
Laura Ann Reed is the author of the chapbook Homage to Kafka (Poetry Box, 2025). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, as well as in twelve anthologies including Poetry of Presence II (Grayson Books, 2023), World Poetry Day Anthology, (Moonstone Publishing, 2026) and The Wonder of Small Things (Storey Publishing 2023). Reed holds master’s degrees in clinical psychology and performing arts. She lives with her husband, Grant Reed, in the Pacific Northwest. https://lauraannreed.net/