Flat on
my back
staring
up at
a map of
my own
mind the
elm tree’s
black
branches—
nothing
left to
catch
the wind.
John Brehm is the author of Sea of Faith and Help Is on the Way, and the editor of The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy, forthcoming in 2017.
*Photo courtesy The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
