Author: Charlotte Innes
Charlotte Innes is a British-born poet and writer now living in Los Angeles. She has published two chapbooks of poems, Licking the Serpent (2011) and Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles (2009), both with Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has also appeared in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006 (Houghton Mifflin) and other anthologies, as well as various journals, including The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, Connotation Press, The Raintown Review, Spillway, and Rattle. Innes has also written about books and the arts for many publications, including the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.
Vision
After snow, I widen squinched-up eyes, watch tips of pine floating trunkless over muffled ridges—or seem to. What flickered once is holding now, the first clear light after nights that almost closed their eyes for good—like you, like me, snowed in for years, as disembodied as the wintry pines, our final talk dead as year-end …