F-Stop by Bowman
Submitted by cscheung on Friday, Apr 16th 2010No Comment
Trout feeding in the current,
creek steaming in the cold;
we stood in the willow brake,
highway out behind us,
looking for the moose we’d seen.
I wondered if sex would be the same
after what we’d read about the grizzlies,
how the smell, during their early fall
eating, struck them. You counted towards
menstruation: guard set on the cycle,
nights wary on the tarp.
A sweep of bluebirds
banked above the mist.
Your camera clicked. Earth, full
of urges, listed from star to star.
Ryland Bowman
Contributing Writer
Greensboro, NC
Ryland Bowman earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He currently teaches as an Instructor at UNCG. His work has most recently appeared in New South, Backwards City Review and the online journal StorySouth. In 2009, he was awarded a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship.
Marco Mannone
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