Students of Dorianne Laux started a new journal called The Raleigh Review….some great selections, including ones by Dorianne, and Joseph Millar. You can check out the journal at:
My poem, The Art of Therapy, appeared in the first edition:
The Art of Therapy
On the opposite wall in my office,
I contemplate three wooden panels
with muted mountain scenes from Japan.
Towering forested cliffs, a small house at the bottom,
two men in robes dwarfed by immensity,
lost in conversation amid cherry blossoms.
It is how I think of therapy,
traveling through immensities
lost in conversation, the dangers
of sudden cliffs, of becoming more lost,
of falling. Of failing
to run one hand then another
through the fallen cherry blossoms
littering the ground with beauty.