the memory of light

look! the stars were here.

their black holes,

their empty watering places.

the memory of light.

they swam these dark channels,

they gathered up the coals

and cast them down to god.

their dragon breath,

their dragon heads bowed

everything burning everything turning

redder as each flower of morning pulls

the night over its head.

Rebecca Cook lives in Chattanooga, TN. She grew up in North Georgia on a farm in Wood Station. She is a writer and visual artist, a writing teacher, an editor, and she has been known to preach in her local church, Grace Episcopal. She is a mom, a wife, and a homemaker/cook at present as she no longer works outside the home. She took her MA in English Literature (UTC), her MA in Rhetoric and Writing (UTC), and MFA in Creative Writing,--poetry, creative nonfiction, (Vermont College). She has published prose and poetry widely across the internet and in print magazines and journals.