Pleased that my poem, "between the lines," is published in the road trip themed Superpresent, Fall 2024, Vol.4, Number 4 issue. 

between the lines

 

 

pastures of beige thoughts blow like prairie grass

vast   willowy   swaying   in a gentle   chaos

 

I am heading west of Colby, Kansas

driving 70   on 70   at 3:17 a.m.

 

trying not to think   at all

I just keep the pedal down

 

to get   some   where

else

 

hearing the heartbeat of concrete’s cracked horizons

that hushed   thump-thump   when tires meet tar

 

my mind blurs from the conscious whir

focusing on what is not here

 

between   the   lines

silence

 

@2024 Aaron Williams

Superpresent, Fall 2024, Vol.4, Number 4 issue

The Hand Whisper

 

 

dawn

is worse

 

the years

pass one by two

 

on my side

I wait for its return

 

a hand whisper

as her breath haunts my nape's chilled hairs

 

my heart remembers

that curved arm kiss warming up sleeping skin

 

the way she made air move

how it crossed over like a glider finding home

 

I wonder how much longer

before I will feel a her here behind me once again

 

to be a man a woman wants

to turn to and hold for morning comfort from night's smiling exhale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

©2024 Aaron Williams

Published in Months To Years, Fall 2024 issue