Kate LaDew, USA
some of them people
and one of those million things
is sunlight through a water droplet on a dry leaf.
as you watch your house burn down and everything in it,
is it better to have a beating heart to blame?
or god, who made the heart and made the water
and made the leaf and made the light
and poured them into the earth and shook until
you couldn't tell one from the other?
Kate LaDew is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art. She resides in Graham, NC with her cats, Charlie Chaplin and Janis Joplin.