Crashing Through the Threshold

by Cliff Saunders

 

Open the door and step

into the shadows of sore losers.

 

Consider the lily of death

coming right at you like

 

a blank check, null and void.

Stab a fork into it and raise it

 

quickly over your head to see

if it is beginning to fracture.

 

With it, you could erase any

blessing from a parrot!

 

As winter nears, return to your

soul with a bowl of snow.

 

If you expect crying, the sun

will shine in your small bus

 

through winds that cling

to your wheels like Spanish moss.

 

What’s at the end of the rainbow?

Why, you are, of course!

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Cliff Saunders is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including Mapping the Asphalt Meadows (Slipstream Publications) and The Persistence of Desire (Kindred Spirit Press). His poems have appeared recently in Quadrant, The Rockford Review, Concision Poetry Journal, Bare Hill Review, and Little Leaf Literary Journal.