Scavenge what you can and destroy the rest. This honey of living is overtly
Vague and overly imagined. Gather your detritus and move into gardens
Of yellow roses, where glow-sticks
Swing like little birds on a string tied around a child’s wrist.
Wind rustle and fragment tangle and with vagueness,
Is it necessary to be whole and complete? I trust
This endurance of the temporary, this extremely restless place.
is a poet and teacher, currently working on a manuscript of poems about Victorian explorers in West Africa. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. A returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Elton has completed a book of poems on Sierra Leone and the women’s secret society there. She recently lived in Stuttgart [Germany], Okinawa, and Florida, completing a set of art/visual poems using her botanical photographs.