Slowly circling,
the pelican
drops like a stone
into water.
Then climbing the
air, he stops, and
with a single
motion of wings,
glides on the wind.
©Bill Cushing
BIO:
Named the “blue collar poet” by classmates at the University of Central Florida, Bill Cushing’s work has appeared in anthologies, literary journals, magazines, and newspapers. He facilitates a writing workshop for 9 Bridges Writers Community. Bill has four previous poetry collections: A Former Life, (Kops-Fetherling International Book Award), Music Speaks (2019 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Award; 2021 New York City Book Award), “. . .this just in. . .”, and Just a Little Cage of Bone, his most recent from Southern Arizona Press. He currently has two new titles available: Time Well Spent, a collection of personal creative non-fiction stories, and Heroic Brothers of the Civil War, an award-winning chapbook of historical prose focused on two of his relatives.