Guest Author

Cindy Rinne - Artist and Poet

Heaven Laughed

 

The bow of the spirit-

                  boat swished

 

   through

the Red River

 

      Slid

         into the delta

 

      Mai Ly’s soul

      looked up and

 

watched

 

         storm clouds swirling

 

                  decided

                  to join them –

                       jumped high

 

                     her boat like a trampoline

                   ao dai dress flapped when she flipped

 

above river dragon

 

      felt mist on her

         face

 

                  The Jade Emperor

                     joined the aerial dance   They spun

 

holding hands like skydivers

 

The wind roared

Birds chirped

 

A child gazed up

Wondered at the circle,

spinning top

 

Thought he

heard Heaven

laugh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(from Quiet Lantern, 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