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No Doubt
by
Craig Kirchner
We wake, the eyes
open,
we move to the
side to get up.
The floor will be
there,
your legs will
work.
No matter how
still,
the wind will
return,
no one knows from
where—
one-club or honker
down.
Trees stay put,
years later,
I have no hair,
the oak of my
youth,
is surrounded by
the same acorns.
Mercury comes
together,
rolls off the
table,
splashes to the
floor,
strives quickly to
reunite.
Your touch, knows
before I do,
what I’ll know and
say,
accepts the flat
of the kitchen table,
and how the earth seems
lately.
Craig
Kirchner thinks of poetry as hobo art, loves storytelling
and the aesthetics of the paper and pen. He has had two poems nominated for the Pushcart,
and has a book of poetry, Roomful of Navels. After a writing hiatus he
was recently published in Decadent Review, Wild Violet, Last
Leaves, Literary Heist, Ariel Chart, Cape Magazine, Flora Fiction, Young Ravens,
Chiron Review, Yellow Mama, Valiant Scribe and several dozen other journals.
KJ Hannah Greenberg is eclectic. She’s
played oboe, participated in martial arts, learned basket
weaving, and studied Middle Eastern dancing. What’s more, she’s a certified
herbalist, and an AP College Board-authorized teacher of calculus. Her creative efforts
have been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, once for The Best of the Net
in art, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once for the Pushcart
Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once
for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s
had more than forty-five books published and has served as an editor for
several literary journals. Check out her latest short
fiction collection, An Orbit of Chairs: https://www.amazon.com/Orbit-Chairs-KJ-Hannah-Greenberg/dp/B0CWMMM73T Within its pages are two tales originally published
at Yellow Mama: "Alive Another Day" and "Light Notes."
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