Wendy McVicker
Alone in the Burning
by Wendy McVicker
ISBN: 9781962405072
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Wendy McVicker lives and writes in Athens, Ohio. Her most recent chapbook, released from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in 2024, is Alone in the Burning. Her poems can also be found, in addition to Sheila-Na-Gig online, in Women Speak anthologies, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and Gyroscope Review.
Sage
on the sluggish
morning air startles, here
in our corner of Appalachia
where the woods are thick
and wet and green, scented
with honeysuckle and rain
We are miles and miles
from the bee-buzzing
California hills
where we wandered
among dry silver-
tongued plants, so close
to the sky
Along the ridge, a scar
of blackened earth
showed where flames
had charged through
the year before
Balanced between fire
and sea, salt
and ash, we breathed
sage and the deep
stillness of chaparral
Lizards, heartbeat
of the rocks, thrumming
in the sun
