infrared ash exhumed
supernatural beings crash
in the clouds when will
I get water tea-stained
tusks crushed to dust a leaf
zigzags grasping aerial
sea taps as it touches
stone the spirit of the tree
speaks you seek to leave
star beings behind
Cindy Rinne creates art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. She is a founding member of PoetrIE, an Inland Empire based literary community. Her work appeared or is forthcoming in Lyre, Lyre, Cactus Heart Press, The Wayfarer, Twelve Winters Press, The Lake, Revolution House, Soundings Review, East Jasmine Review, Linden Ave. Literary Journal, The Gap Toothed Madness, and others. She has a poetry manuscript, The Feather Ladder and has written and illustrated a chapbook called, Rootlessness. www.fiberverse.com.