ON CRYSTAL PEAK
On Crystal Peak—snow. A storm front moves in from the east over
Watsonville. There is snow-cover across the valley on Mt.
Tamalpais. The radio towers blink red, each flash a thud in my
center. Frigid wind. Silence.
Watsonville. There is snow-cover across the valley on Mt.
Tamalpais. The radio towers blink red, each flash a thud in my
center. Frigid wind. Silence.
B. L. Bruce is an award-winning poet and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee living and writing along the California coast. Her work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, magazines, and literary publications, with poetry most recently appearing in The Lakeshore Review, Red Wolf Journal, Bivouac Magazine, The Sunlight Press, Riverstone Literary Journal, and Gone Lawn, among many others. Bruce is the founding editor-in-chief of the nature-centric literary magazine Humana Obscura and author of The Weight of Snow, 28 Days of Solitude, The Starling’s Song, and Measures.
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