STEVI-LEE ALVER

A Pound of History, a prose poem appearing in Writing to the Edge, published by Spineless Wonders

A POUND OF HISTORY
After Gertrude Stein

The wind is breath that is laughter not in wind but in storm, in storms of laughter. A kind of grey in a cloud, a form of mist framed by the sky, a hue of lonely-black smudged above her. She is nothing still. Nothing quite still floats. And floats with grace…