Possibility Purloined
….
It is assumed, willed even, that loss
is a violent ripping of the
fabric of your reality;
a denial of future memories;
a light that goes out
in the window of the past
But what is loss,
how is it held in your
hand to be examined or
in your heart to suck all the juices out
when loss is about what never was
and, now, never can be
…
This poem is from the chapbook Spirit Animal Lessons by Brenda Galloway Conway (Finishing Line Press), and is available at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/spirit-animal-lessons-by-brenda-galloway-conway/
Spirit Animal Lessons captures the common moments in this blind curve thing we call life. Like hide and seek shafts of sun through trees, there are glimpses of difficult paths of our own making and the loss that shreds us when God blinks. You will find love; of self, of others, of the elegance and brutality of nature. The eponymous poem of this collection explores the constriction that we feel when our authentic self is put in a straight jacket. A microcosm of the extraordinary nature of the everyday, this collection holds these universal moments to the light and casts the prism created across the page.
Brenda Galloway Conway is a life-long Midwesterner. She currently lives in the Ozarks with her husband and the flying squirrels that visit most nights. She writes poetry, short stories, and children’s books. Brenda loves small towns, nonprofits, and nature.
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