Autumn hills, Wind by Wendy McVicker in Farewell Issue, Journal of Mythic Arts, 2008 — Endicott Studio

Autumn hills, Wind

by Wendy McVicker


In my dreams we enter

the woods, you

slip between tall

trees (think, pillars

of stone in the old

cathedrals)


leaves on the ground so thick

we are ankle–deep

in gold.


These things whisper:

hair–thin branches

in the trees' high crowns,

the leaves as we pass,

a black bird's wings —


blood surging

in my ears as we climb

to that place where the sky


opens up–no longer

a mesh of branches

enclosing darkness


but limitless

white


uninscribed snow

a plain of moonlight

a clearing, and no one there










About the Author:
Wendy McVicker lives and writes in the beautiful green hills of Athens, Ohio. In her poetry, she seeks "to honor memory and the slow, deep process of knowing." Her poems have appeared in Appalachian Women's Journal, Confluence, Riverwind, and Whiskey Island, among others. She is a teaching poet with the Ohio Arts Council's Arts in Education program, and has been inciting poetry in schools, libraries, galleries, and community centers since 1987.

Copyright © 2008 by Wendy McVicker. This poem may not be reproduced in any form without the author's express written permission.



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