The Past seemed as real or more than whatever thin present showed its face.
House Arrest
Author: Doug Bolling
Doug Bolling's poetry has appeared in Posit, BlazeVOX, Kestrel, Water-Stone Review, Redactions, The Missing Slate (with interview), and De La Mancha among others. He has received Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations and several awards and lives in the greater Chicago area.
The Choice
This poem hopes to combine compression with metaphors that achieve a resonance so as to offer the reader a trip into the indefinite.