Looking for Trust

by Angela Hoffman


I’ve been down this well worn path before
the one formed having been walked upon
one too many times. 
Cones, heavy on the pines are curled tight
swollen shut, wet, waiting for conditions just right for opening. 

Eyes full of tears, check off familiar landmarks.
No signs lead to an opening
just more of the same dark denials.

I’m looking for the field of Queen Anne’s Lace
not a single space of emptiness, just ordained crowns
of white, dancing on frail stems
in the sunlight they trust.


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Angela Hoffman lives in Wisconsin. Her poetry has appeared in Solitary Plover, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Museletter and calendar, Agape Review, Verse-Virtual, Visual Verse, and Your Daily Poem.com. Her first chapbook (Resurrection Lily, Kelsay Books) is scheduled for release in 2022. She committed to writing a poem a day during the pandemic. Spirituality and nature often inspire her poetry.