Rescuing Voices come closer, veer off. Flashlight beams Strobe over your head. You do not care. No one you will ever know works that land now. It is as green as Eden.
Life rises in the roots, in the leaves.
John Piller was educated at Luther College, California State University, and the University of Virginia, where he took his M.F.A. in 1991. This poem appeared in the September 1998 issue of Poetry Magazine.