Carey Taylor
Driving Over the Columbia River from
Oregon into Washington
Crossing the I-5 bridge
after calling the ambulance
for my father,
I think about borders.
The crossover where one place
becomes another.
How in the middle of the span
I both enter and leave.
How the place I call home
is nowhere and everywhere.
How the gyres of this great river
turn and turn.
How she swallows
blossom and boulder
with her wide
tongue of time.
Carey Taylor is the author of The Lure of Impermanence (Cirque Press 2018). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the 2022 Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize. Her work has been published both in Ireland and the United States and most recently in The Black Spring Press Group Anthology-Before the Cameras Leave Ukraine (London). She holds a Master of Arts degree in School Counseling and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. https://careyleetaylor.com