The Literary Magazine of Mountainview MFA
Wind from the desert.
Trees bend in one direction
With sagebrush gusts.
They point to the ocean,
A dull blue with hollow waves.
Brush fire in Ventura
Expands to 20,000 acres.
Chainsaws gnaw suspect branches.
Smoke pretends to be clouds.
Stench of possessions burning.
Twilight wind howls—
Coyotes circling before the kill.
Kirby Michael Wright was born and raised in Hawaii. He lives beside the track in San Diego with his wife Darcy and a cat named Gatsby.
Bright pink spots, a golden streak, the tiniest wild trout pops
through the net and slips away into the stream. It vanishes
before I can touch its pink specks; I’m compelled to cast again.
Meredith Chester holds a BA in creative writing from Florida State University. Her flash fiction and poetry has been published in the Wilderness House Literary Review and in La Piccioletta Barca. In her free time, she enjoys crafting and relaxing with her dog.
When my friend says of my trees, they are HUNDREDS of years old, we
are giddy, laugh too loudly, forget the time, lose the sunlight,
the owl flies to its ANCIENT branch in rapid merry dark.
Meredith Chester holds a BA in creative writing from Florida State University. Her flash fiction and poetry has been published in the Wilderness House Literary Review and in La Piccioletta Barca. In her free time, she enjoys crafting and relaxing with her dog.