The forest is where light begins.
Even in fog, there is more
than one path.
You cannot focus
on any one part:
the distortion, or waves.
Bare trees; mirror, rippling.
Movement of earth,
branches becoming legs.
—
Sam New is an MFA Poetry candidate at Old Dominion University. She received honorable mention for the 2023 ODU Poetry Prize sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of Virginia. Her work appears in Barely South Review, Waccamaw Journal, and Virginia Poets Database. Her work is forthcoming in South Dakota Review, Reverie Magazine, and Constellate.
