One place understood helps us understand all places better.

Eudora Welty

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Mountain skies


In the quiet
of my grandmother's
house

In the bedroom
up the stairs

Under the darkling sky
of a mountain
setting

I never
closed my eyes

Just out
of elementary

Just close
enough to God

That belief
didn't have
to be cemented

And each truth
imprinted

I could believe
in the dark
of those
mountain skies.