C. Dale Young at Connotation Press

Faculty member C. Dale Young‘s poem “Revelation” appears online at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact.

Revelation

Walking through the forest, I felt the eyes

tracking me.  I tested it.  I made turn after turn, faster

faster, too fast for any animal.  Something was tracking me,

continued to match my speed and cornering.

And when I stopped to turn, the man rushed at me,

 

struck me in the chest with the bare side of his forearm:

backward, backward, arch and then fall, the wind

forced from my chest, the impact strong enough to turn

my body into a ballistic that felled the small pine tree.

Struggling for breath, the heart so quick in my chest it hurt, ...[Keep Reading]…