By Leigh-Anne Burley Don't Fill Your Sky With Too Many Birds and A Love Letter to My Lake Don’t fill the sky with too many birdswings touching wings leave no room for flightDon’t fill your sky with too many dreamsDreams need time to be bathed and soakedDon’t fill your sky with too many promisesPromises have … Continue reading Don’t Fill Your Sky With Too Many Birds and A Love Letter to My Lake
Balancing Act
By Leigh-Anne Burley Does a bird balancing on a blowing branch get seasick like a green sailor on a gray-rolling sea? Does a tightrope walker get dizzy on a breezy day? Who ties and unties the knots in your stomach? Who unites a divided mind or mends a broken heart. Is it left to chance, … Continue reading Balancing Act
A Man From the Missouri Breaks
By Leigh-Anne Burley Nobby notices the dust swirling as a posse emerges from Big Sandy, Montana, pursuing a chicken and farm supply bandit. His third-grade classmates talk about a wild man who leaps over the Missouri Breaks with just one bound after devouring a raw chicken. Nobby wonders if the chicken thief has a proper … Continue reading A Man From the Missouri Breaks
My Grandmas Ride Their Blue And Gold Tandem Bike And Other Poems
By Leigh-Anne Burley My Grandmas Ride Their Blue and Gold Tandem Bike My grandmas ride their blue and gold tandem bike and take us grandkids for Saturday picnics in the park. Collecting figurines from Red Rose tea boxes and trading IGA green stamps for dishes is their interest.. These lovely ladies enjoy neighborhood lilac-scented tea … Continue reading My Grandmas Ride Their Blue And Gold Tandem Bike And Other Poems
The Limp
By Leigh-Anne Burley John Henry looks up into his mother’s face as his plump fingers tug at her billowing skirt, pulling her towards the shoreline. She smiles at him and then turns a troubling gaze toward the ocean and the vastness beyond. While building sandcastles, she tells him his father was a hero fighting for … Continue reading The Limp
Academy of the Heart And Mind 