Leave it in the Desert

Leave it in the desert.

Let the bone-dry winds that turn ancient 

stones to sand howl across the face of your sorrows. 

Feel the erosion of eons wear the rough edges of what keeps you up 

at night, down to the smooth sides of a cool pillow beneath 

your life-weary head as you look with hope

towards constellations devoid of city dilution. 

Blake

F.S. Blake is a Bronze Star decorated U.S. Army Veteran and Pushcart Prize nominated poet. He is a published photographer, traveler, advanced SCUBA diver, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and proud husband and father. He has poems published or forthcoming in O-Dark-Thirty, As you Were: The Military Review, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, and Line of Advance. His chapbooks are available from Finishing Line Press. His poetry career began during his sister’s wedding. Schedule time with me here https://calendly.com/francis_blake

 

 

Dara Lorenzo is a Baltimore based multimedia Artist. She holds a BFA from Towson University 2008 in Printmaking, an MFA in 2012 from San Francisco Art Institute in Printmaking and Interdisciplinary Studies. Currently residing in Baltimore, MD she has her own art practice and owns Zo Gallery, a multi media art gallery in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore. She currently exhibits her work in Baltimore and San Francisco art galleries this year 2024. She also is a professor of the arts currently at Towson University, Goucher College and CCBC.