Empire
Photograph by Natalie Anderson
By Natalie Anderson
Dark red house
in sunlit forest
hums
whole
where cat eyes smile from lantern-lit windows
gaze out at you in the moonstruck garden
A friend in the hammock with a lover on the ladder
The soft milky fog rises
twirls past the mailbox
up the climbing rose
above the blueberries below an open sky
And shuffling back inside
we say goodbye to the night
Red ribbon holds us tight.
Natalie Anderson is an environmentalist, agro-ecologist, musician, and writer. She completed a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and Agroecology at UC Santa Cruz. Her poems are produced from a place of deep love and observation within context of the human experience and our interrelated existences.
