Divide
Michelle Hendrixson-Miller
as in the act of dividing, separation, as in that time kayaking down the Duck when you and I came around a bend to all those rows of empty white folding chairs, a hundred or so, carefully aligned, with an aisle cut down the middle. No one there but us, sunlit and magnified; that audience of chairs; that part down the middle, like the river we were on, parting land from land, except straighter, more human.
Michelle Hendrixson-Miller lives in Columbia, TN. She received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte where she served as poetry editor on the inaugural issue of Qu Literary Magazine. Her poems have appeared previously in Josephine Quarterly, and many other publications including Poems and Plays, The Moth, Adirondack Review, Still, The Fourth River, One, Harbor Review, Mudfish, Thrush, The Museum of Americana, and Chiron Review.