Steve Brisendine

Embers Remembered

Sunset
through suburban
maples, elms, power lines;
someone get me to the prairie,
let me

breathe in
rain-drenched sagebrush and alfalfa,
watch the world's widest sky
blaze up and die
to dusk.

Steve Brisendine is a writer, poet, occasional artist and recovering journalist living and working in Mission, KS. He is the author of two collections from Spartan Press: The Words We Do Not Have (2021) and the upcoming Salt Holds No Secret But This (2022). He was a finalist for the 2021 Derick Burleson Poetry Prize.