Sunday, April 01, 2012

Laura Theobald

THE RIVER NORTH


you can’t imagine 
dying 
for a cause.
nothing is pure.

when i began 
to follow the river 
north

everywhere 
i looked she 
picked up her bags
looking 
north.

the synchronicity, she said
looking.

yes, i said.




Laura Theobald is a recent graduate in literature and creative writing from the University of Tampa. She currently works various jobs and lives in Atlanta. Her works have appeared on plain china, Glass Mountain, Quilt, movingpoems.comand most recently in a collaborative piece titled "these sentences are not a poem" in Typo Magazine.