Landscape as Clean, Untroubled, Swept Bare

You will speak of the desert. Or the Colorado dunes. 

I will talk of shores and their companion.  

What we had in common—echoes, you called them.

I painted a thin straight line. And above: another. 

And in the in-between: respite. Sometimes, the tolling 
of bells, briefly.

KELLY R. SAMUELS

Kelly R. Samuels is the author of two poetry collections and four chapbooks—the most recent Oblivescence (Red Sweater Press, 2024) and Talking to Alice (Whittle Micro-Press, 2023.) She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee with work appearing in River Styx, Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, december, and RHINO. She lives in the Upper Midwest.