Perhaps

 

 

Perhaps

 

fearless

except perhaps a fear to stop

perhaps named after a ghost

or an ancestor perhaps named for

God's grace and forgiveness

perhaps she doesn't believe

in her own mortality

until she

slows to

a stop

 

  

Michael A. Griffith

 

Michael A. Griffith teaches at Raritan Valley and Mercer County Community Colleges in central NJ. He is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, Bloodline; Exposed; and New Paths to Eden. Two of these, Bloodline and Exposed, are available in eBook format from Soma Publishing. Mike facilitates a monthly poetry workshop for the Princeton Public Library and is a board member of the Delaware Valley Poets/US 1 Poets. Recent work appears in Ariel Chart, Haiku Journal, Kelsey Review, North of Oxford, Page & Spine, and the anthology book Floored