after Joan Fullerton’s painting “Sedona Speaking”
sometimes
all that surrounds us
is all that we need—
packed red earth to buttress our feet
sagebrush to show us
how to withstand wind
slabs of rock to remind us of a few solid truths
and in the distance one jagged hill
to demonstrate persistence
despite time’s erosion
—
Melissa Huff feeds her poetry from the mystery of the natural world and the ways in which body, nature and spirit intertwine. An advocate of the power of poetry presented out loud, she twice won awards in BlackBerry Peach Prizes for Poetry: Spoken and Heard, sponsored by NFSPS. Publishing credits include The Orchards Poetry Journal, RockPaperPoem, Gyroscope Review, Persimmon Tree, and Blue Heron Review. Melissa is frequently sighted making her way between Illinois and Colorado.
