Red and Yellow flash
Swirl, blinds
Bleeds into my senses.
A voice on the phone
Said this is the spot
Just past the bend
In the road.
The damp road.
The slippery road.
Where’s my son?
My baby boy…
Two weeks from sixteen.
Red, now, only Red
(Swirls, blinds
Bleeds into my memory)
On the road.
The damp road.
The skid-marked road.
My shadow points north where velveteen moss hangs
from gnarled oak--longing
for osage and dogwood
my father beside me
on a bale of hay, smoking
in the cool barn, now
where only swallows nest—
the rails no longer humming
sitting on the curb
displaced Chi
soullife force
alternate versiontrapped
in a parallel universe
separated by a veil
dividinginto infinite selves
high desertgateway
to the multiverse
...wayfaring poet and landscape photographer working as a writer, independent copy editor, and victim advocate.
Leslie is co-founder of Laudably Tarnished, a poetry workshop. Memberships include: PenHouseInk Press; Poetry Center San Jose; California Writers Club, South Bay Chapter; and Henderson Writers' Group, sponsor of the Las Vegas Writer's Conference. Her poems, articles, and short stories have been published in magazines, anthologies, and literary journals. Her "Hacienda Bridge" photo was featured on "Oprah" in 2002.
Leslie is currently working on a chapbook of her poems and a non-fiction book containing interviews of writers and artists drawn to Las Vegas, Nevada.