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, Missouri where she teaches physics at Missouri S&T and hikes the Ozarks. She is the author of Porous Land, The Eden of Perhaps, and A Coracle for Dreams (Spartan Press), and her fourth collection Love Song to Gravity has come out from Stubborn Mule Press in 2025. Her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines; you can read some of them on her website agnesvojta.com.