Writing Down the Yellow
by Cristina Norcross
It starts with a yellow circle
that hovers and drifts –
a dandelion spiraling in the wind,
waiting for able hands to catch it.
A word appears,
then a voice repeats the sound,
until my hands find paper
and capture that first, fleeting image.
The pull of the poem is irresistible.
It is a literary addiction –
an affliction that will not leave me alone
until I write down the bones of it –
until my pulse ceases to race from the thrill
of following that elusive yellow circle,
teasing with the promise of completion.
Copyright ©:
2011 |
About Cristina Norcross
Biography
Cristina M. R. Norcross is a freelance writer and poet living in Wisconsin with her husband and their two sons. Cristina has had numerous works published in literary magazines in the United States, England, Wales, Canada and Algeria and was included in the international anthology, Contemporary Women’s Literature (2007). She has had poems appear in The Toronto Quarterly, Your Daily Poem and The Nervous Breakdown, among others. Cristina has appeared as a special guest on the program Writers in the Round on NH public radio 106.1 FM. She is the author of Land & Sea: Poetry Inspired by Art (2007), The Red Drum (2008) and Unsung Love Songs (2010). Cristina is the co-editor of the collaborative project, One Vision: A Fusion of Art and Poetry in Lake Country.
