Cameron Morse
Untiming
Fall is not all at once. A leaf falls all of a sudden between my daughter and me, blurted. Individuality is the illusion of one me, for old times’ sake. The leaf is timely. I am always timing myself, always anxious to get back home. Time for her … there is no meter. In the middle of our loop, Omi might stop and head back the way we came. At the dead end, pitch a tent. With her, the temptation is to stay, lay down the walking stick, breathe in the pagoda. Cameron Morse is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is The Thing Is (Briar Creek Press, 2021). He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City—Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and (soon, three) children. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website. |