Guest Author

Cindy Rinne - Artist and Poet

Airborne

 

The Wind Spirit dug into his skin,

Licked his face

As The Feather Keeper drifted

On the waves of air

 

Whoosh

Zip

 

Sailed above the outlines (of a river)

Cutting through stone.

Stillness of the dead air as he hovered.

 

An updraft

Escalated him into damp

Cumulus clouds.

The Feather Keeper floated and twisted,

Tasted the droplets,

(Remembering) the story of his birth.

The clouds brewed

As the first breath of a storm.

 

He dashed below them

Delighted to discover

The birds soaring

Around him in an aerial dance.

 

 

 

 

 

(from The Feather Ladder, a novel in verse)

 

Cindy Rinne

Copyright 2013

 

 

 

 

 

Cindy Rinne creates art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. Cindy won an Honorable Mention in The Rattling Wall Poetry Contest. Cindy is a Guest Author for Saint Julian Press. She is a founding member of PoetrIE, an Inland Empire based literary community. Her work appeared or is forthcoming in A Narrow Fellow, shuf poetry, Poetry Quarterly, The Prose-Poem Project, The Wild Lemon Project Literary Journal, Welter Literary Magazine, The Sand Canyon Review, Inlandia, A Literary Journal, Lili Literary Journal, Tin Cannon Literary Review, and Phantom Seed. She has recently completed a new poetry manuscript, The Feather Ladder. Cindy is collaborating on two chapbooks and working on her second manuscript. www.fiberverse.com.

LINKS

www.inlandiajournal.org, Vol. III, Issue I – Winter 2013, Poetry: Chalking (audio version too)

www.yvonne-brown.com, blog, National Poetry Month Celebration, Featured on 4/11/13