Ars Poetica, with a Focus on You
- Dec 7, 2018
- 1 min read
by Gabriel Welsch
I wanted to do something nice, like rearrange a horizon, or re-sketch the trees
and their implication of the land smudging through the fog. Or to widen the nimbus
of lights grown liquid in the vaporous night. I wanted to create for you
a world suited to your mood, to affirm your existence as some center point, all water
bubbling through the spring of your intent. Why is the greatest gift a kind of control
when in the night we imagine a threat grows harder to discern in the fog rolling over a mountain?
Gabriel Welsch writes fiction and poetry and is the author of four collections of poems, the most recent of which is The Four Horsepersons of a Disappointing Apocalypse (Steel Toe Books, 2013). His work appears recently in Moon City Review, Adroit Journal, Gulf Coast, Crab Orchard Review, Chautauqua, Pembroke Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and Mid-American Review. He lives in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, with his family, works as vice president of strategic communications and marketing at Juniata College, and is an occasional teacher at the Chautauqua Writer’s Center.
