Brooks Lampe
Village and Town Kids
Just look at these children, how their faces
make them already old,
as if something lodged itself
in the caverns of their eyes,
except the toddler,
who stares at diurnal diamonds
beyond the hills.
Painting: France Kralj / Kmečki in mestni otroci (Village and Town Kids)
Brooks Lampe teaches literature at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and writes poems, which have appeared in Peculiar Mormyrid, Otoliths, and elsewhere.