Now this is what you shall do— Take the land each way you dream a lover earth skin seamless against her found beauty No map for this country called flame sky the supple throat of fire tasting amethyst bittersweet cerulean Ride some road to that place with no name past ripe-veined streams pierced by twilight heat blood in rock soil pulsing and blazed
Bio: Founding publisher and editor of 3: A Taos Press, a multicultural and ethically voiced publishing house, Andrea L. Watson’s poetry has appeared in Nimrod, Runes, Ekphrasis, Cream City Review, Subtropics, International Poetry Review, and The Dublin Quarterly, among others. She is the co-editor, with Madelyn Garner, of Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, and co-editor, with Joseph Hutchison, of the anthology, Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai. Source: https://coloradopoetscenter.org/poets/watson_andrea/