blue skies poetry

outside
fireworks
pop and bang

but my window
faces the wrong
direction

I open it
listen

wonder
who chose
this moment
from all others
in our elliptical orbit
to be
the beginning

~ Angela Kublik

Angela Kublik is an Edmonton based writer whose poetry has appeared in Legacy, Freefall, and The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, as well as online at DailyHaiku.Org. She is the editor of blue skies poetry and co-editor of Writing the Land: Alberta throught its Poets.

Filed under: Angela Kublik by akublik Date 31 December, 2007