Rustic is Who I am Today

A poem for your reading pleasure

Rustic is who I am today

The alternative reality to cope

Follow down Dry Fork Road to

the healing water that runs cold and icy.

The cabin next to little Laughery creek

Deep in the woods.

You will find me comfortable in hunter green and khaki

Heavy boots with wool socks

A reflective smile

In front of the lion fire

Comfort drifts

From the kitchen:

Bread and cinnamon

Soup and whiskey

Breaking sticks crackle and echo

Against a brick containment.

What would I talk about to an old me sitting next to the lake cottage?

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Tammy Breitweiser is a writer and teacher who is a force of nature and woman of honor; seer of nuance; an accidental inspirationalist; a keeper of the little red doors, and a conjurer of everyday magic who is busy writing short stories. A future Minnesotan temporarily hiding in Indiana, her poetry has been published in The Storyteller Magazine and her flash fiction in The Ninja Writers Monthly and Elephants Never. Her essay is published in the I Wrote it Anyway anthology. You can also connect with Tammy through Twitter @TLBREIT.