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Joanne DeSimone Reynolds has published poems in Salamander, Ibbetson Street Press, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Sanctuary Magazine. She has written reviews for Boston Small Press and Poetry Scene, and is a long-standing participant in Plein Air poetry at Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, Ma. Her chapbook Comes A Blossom was published by Main Street Rag in 2014.

Elegy for a Pristine Morning

Could it have been more clear or blue
Our little way of life
Smoldering in the felt of dust
The sky spilling
But not a drop of rain to cling to
Nor puddle for reflection
A pair of eyeglasses
Stairs to nowhere
Groans in the rubble
No going back
And no notion of what this moment would become
Jolts of joe to the grounds
(The center did not hold)
And the blue screen needing attending to
In plain view of the morning sun
Worlds collapse (Two   One )
Or maybe just your world
Ice-trapped
Gasoline-lit as if it were an anthill
Everyone else running for cover

— Joanne DeSimone Reynolds

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