Issue Twenty-Nine - Winter 2017

Lack of Understanding

By Susan Rae Sampson

I saunter down an unpaved road
among orchards,
just watching birds.

An elderly farmer rolls up,
calls down from his tractor,
asks, “Are you alright?”

How could a farmer
understand such indolence
as mine?

Copyright Sampson 2016

Susan Rae Sampson has retired from the working world and writes poems and essays for the pleasure of it. She was the winner of the first chapbook contest from Wild Leek Press with her Book of Birds. Her essays about natural science and history have appeared in Awake in the World and the Archipelago Journal. Her lifestyle articles have appeared in the Wenatchee World newspaper and the Wenatchee Good Life magazine. Her poetry has appeared in the SHARK REEF and Floating Bridge literary journals.

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