& SOMEWHERE THE SUN
By Sara June Woods
Somewhere there is a clearing
in a forest where the world is
not a lonely place.
Somewhere there is a mountain
I have written on in forest fires
that says I am sorry I am not
the one you were looking for.
I wanted to be so badly.
But I am just this one person.
& it says all this
spiraling across
below the tree line.
& somewhere the sun
looks the same coming up
as it does going down.
Today’s poem was previously published in jellyfish magazine and appears here today with permission from the poet.
Sara June Woods is author of three books, Sara or the Existence of Fire (Horse Less Press, 2014), Wolf Doctors (Artifice Books, 2014) and the forthcoming Careful Mountain (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Her poetry is published widely in journals such as Guernica, Columbia Poetry Review, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly and Salt Hill. She is a trans woman and a Scorpio and she lives in Portland, OR with her girlfriend she is married to.
Editor’s Note: What do you do when a poem is heartbreaking? When its simple, honest revelations break your heart? When its line breaks break you? What do you do with a poem that devastates you with its simple, brutal truth? With a poem that’s so good, it hurts to read it? Why, you share it, of course. Here, you say to the world. You’re welcome.
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