Global Directive in Three by Leigh Herrick

            To no longer believe in the face that was

                                                                                       this poem

                   To no longer hear the definitive

                                                                                          “no”

         complimenting all the yeses dressed like now

                                                                                       and then

             in the long-sleeved arm of contradiction

speaking                                                                    an almighty will

                                   called                                            knowing

surely

                                                                                      nothingness

                           is to comprehend

                                

                                    how

                      

                             winter’s snow                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                    erases       and

the fading

print like                                                  

yesterday’s

rabbit

                                      has 

                                 

                                disappeared

____________________

Leigh Herrick will appear in AlteredScale.com issue 3 in spring of 2013.

Leigh Herrick is an engaged poet, writer, and recording artist who trains in Middle Eastern and Afro-Caribbean hand drumming.  She has produced two CD's: JUST WARand MONOCLE MAN, and is at work on a third.  Herrick ’s poetry has won numerous awards and she is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.  Her newly released book isHOME FRONT: Poems of the Bush II Years.  For more information please visitwww.LeighHerrick.com