Anna Elkins

To Readers of Ecclesiastes

there is sky in us
                    whether or not
          we wear wings

we are born to fly
          no strangers
                    to flight
                    or desire


it is easy to mistake the pull
                    and beat of wing
as meaningless

          perhaps we misread
                    perhaps
it is only meaning less
          than the words we cannot taste
          with the flavors of this world

Author Bio

Anna Elkins has an M.F.A. in poetry and was a Fulbright Fellow of creative writing in Germany. She has been published in several journals and books and has multiple poems forthcoming in the North Carolina Literary Review and Reunion: The Dallas Review.