New Mirage Journal

Regarding Joy and Grace
By Colin Foote Burch

Spinning, apropos or no,
Grooving on glittered club floors
Or shimmying on scorched highway medians:

You will be like the sunflower
Willfully set in the crack
Of the dirty city sidewalk,

Grateful the dark lattice dome crumbled
And now we have sky --
Blue, unbounded sky. 

Colin Foote Burch is a lecturer in English at Coastal Carolina University, where he teaches composition and creative writing. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University in Charlotte and his BA in English from N.C. State University. He writes a regular column on beer for the Weekly Surge in Myrtle Beach, SC, and he edits LiturgicalCredo.com, an online literary journal devoted to doubt, speculation, faith, and wonder.