Scope the perimeter.
Once you realize
there is a sea
of green beyond
the borders, bugs
with more legs than
eyes, mushroom cap
umbrellas for ants,
worms and orange
clay beneath the
dirt, then I’ll lose
you to the grandeur
of earth, the refusal
of daytime sleep
and the path
through the trees
that leads
who knows where.
Sarah Ghoshal earned her M.F.A. from Long Island University in Brooklyn and has two chapbooks, Changing the Grid (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and The Pine Tree Experiment (Lucky Bastard Press, 2015). Sarah recently received a Best of the Net nomination, and her poetry can also be found in Arsenic Lobster, Winter Tangerine Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Cream City Review, and Red Savina Review, among others. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, her happy little baby, and their faithful dog, Comet, who flies through the air with the greatest of ease.