Vane | L. Ward Abel

The haunting of maps
with points and stars
with folds and rips
well-worn less-traveled
choices shoot out
into a night tangible
where fields of compass roses
are rain pedals
from all places I have been
to all directions
out and then
before I darkened the moor.

L. Ward Abel, poet, composer and performer of music, teacher, lawyer, lives in rural Georgia, has been published hundreds of times in print and online, and is the author of Peach Box and Verge (Little Poem Press, 2003), Jonesing For Byzantium (UK Authors Press, 2006), The Heat of Blooming (Pudding House Press, 2008), Torn Sky Bleeding Blue (erbacce-Press, 2010), and the forthcoming American Bruise (Parallel Press, 2012). A short Selected Poetry has just been released through West Virginia College of Law.