Vistas & Byways - Spring 2022
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      Lucky/Unlucky?

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What's Next for You?
by Heather Saunders Estes

​​Thanks for asking. Ok . . . if I am lucky,
I’ve got 20-30 years left.
But the question seems odd to me now. Strange,
planning was my career.
 
I’d like to walk in maple woods,
stop to lift a leafy pulpit for a look at Jack.
Suck a stem of sassafras,
crumble mint leaves in my pocket.
Smell coffee beans
poured like tropical rain
into the whir and grind at the roastery.
Tag passages in poetry books
that make me tear up.
How about I sketch a slipper orchid
with blue India ink?
How about I listen to you? 
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​Heather Saunders Estes's debut book of poetry, Inner Sunset, was published by Blue Light Press and is available online. It celebrates the joy of life, the natural and human-made world, recognizing all must change. For her, poems are incantations to push back against the forces, human and inhuman, that turn our eyes away from the beauty of shivering aspen leaves, joy of whales breaching, and the compassion of hugs. Her second book, Cloudburst, was published in 2021 by Poetic Matrix Press. She lives in the Inner Sunset in San Francisco and is a member of the OLLI at SF State poetry group that has been meeting since 2016. You can see some of her work online at:   https://heathersaundersestes.com/
 

Other pieces in this Issue:  
Poetry:
Summer in Winter  

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  • CONTENTS
    • IN THIS ISSUE
    • Fiction
    • Nonfiction
    • Poetry
    • Bay Area Stew
    • Inside OLLI
    • Photo Essays
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ARCHIVES
    • Fall 2021
    • Spring 2021
    • Fall 2020
    • Spring 2020
    • Fall 2019
    • Spring 2019
    • Fall 2018
    • Spring 2018
    • Fall 2017
    • Spring 2016
    • Fall 2015