king grossman 


 

AFTER BURNING THE WOODEN SWORD TO ASHES

wait on
nothing
still
waiting
arrival
doesn’t come
forever
here
light rain pattering outside my window
or whatnot
stardust
with everything
two brothers in Delhi
out of a tiny basement
nurse kites
back to health
i am
a broken-winged
bird
flying
in magic’s
now


King Grossman is a spiritual sojourner, social justice activist, nonviolent revolutionary, novelist, poet, writer of short prose, as well as a children’s story. He creates art for the mind and heart of the beholder to experience and be changed by, not ever in competition but a collaboration that he can only call divine; nevertheless, there’s the dominant culture’s way of it, and, his novel, Letters To Alice, indeed, received The Independent Press Award as the Distinguished Favorite in Visionary Fiction, was a Finalist for Literary Fiction in the National Indie Excellence Awards, received the Gold Medal for Inspirational/Visionary Fiction from the Global Ebook Awards, and won two Royal Dragonfly Book awards, for Literary Fiction and Cover Design. His poems and short prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Bear Review, Delmarva Review, The Round, Licking River Review, Crack the Spine, Forge, Tiger’s Eye, Burningword, Flights, The Ignatian, Drunk Monkeys, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Saint Katherine Review, El Portal, Whistling Shade, and many others. He lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California with his wife, Lisa, and sun conure parrot, Sunny.