AMERICAN VOYAGE

Kept forever in the air by the telling
grandmother's red rubber ball
sails
again and again
across the deck, over the rail
startling sea birds
always too high for her small-girl hands
in a lazy, backward arc toward Denmark

Sheryl Sirotnik is a landscape designer living in Kirkland. She loves spoken word, sees poetry in most things and feels fortunate to live in such a beautiful place.