“When You Flow In” Featured Poetry by Z. Walsh

Zac Walsh’s work has appeared in journals such as Cimarron Review, Alligator Juniper, The Awakenings, The Charleston Anvil, Light/Dark, Inscape, Big Lucks, Lime Hawk, Spectre Magazine, Gulf Stream, the DuPage Valley Review and The Platte Valley Review, as well as in the anthologies Blood on the Floor and Small Batch. He lives in a small, unincorporated town in California with his fiance and two very old dogs.

When You Flow In

No matter the tributary you trespass,
whether you weather the streams
of fire, or ice, or earth or stone
no one can get you,
thee forewarned,
for no one comes
the way you came
and you
cannot the way
you whenced.
Know no one here
came in alive,
since rivers do not cease,
their being meaning
continual sift, so
accept with half-smirks
there is no one
at the end of any day
to get you
for you are begotten
by the river
all along.

Most Time Mostly Missed

Would a caught brown whirl
walking amidst woods
wake us from worry’s ennui?

Could a black cube circled in translucence
wiling-out in antigravitational blue
re-draw maps of our minutiae?

Should an invisible foaming
beaconing across the peak of plank
purify the hermitage of Yahweh or Allah?

Most times, no, for
knowing not wonder,
with evergrowing
grace and mercy
missing, we
knowers grasp towards
bare reserves
whence Time
fenced us
into a game
that so
fiercely
goes:

Seconds are scarce.
Love is rare.

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