By King Grossman
Through the gray blanketing clouds
a breakthrough of silver
a breakthrough of silver
stop and look
stop everything
when the blue dog
is most low down
from out across the Pacific
the beam is there
earlier today i’d let it in
through the top of my head
King Grossman is a sojourner, social justice activist, nonviolent revolutionary, novelist, poet, writer of short prose, as well as a children’s story. His poems and short prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Delmarva Review, Bear Review, The Round, Licking River Review, Crack the Spine, Forge, Tiger’s Eye, Burningword, Ignatian, Drunk Monkeys, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and many others. He’s working on his fifth novel. He lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California with his wife, Lisa; dog, Bogart; and sun conure parrot, Sunny