Unnatural Laws

1 - The silence after

Cloven hooves, grass, brown
deer—Gunshot. Gone. Hush. Something
evil happened here...

2 - Growing (Up)

I left and let the
grass grow. Oh how this grove is
no longer my home.

3 - Spread too thin

Turtle knows himself
a turtle. I know myself
a ring of ripples.

4 - Me after the storm

Lightning-struck giant
severed in two—one arm points
West. The other, East.

5 - My tracks on the game trail

Old fox was young once:
Remembers, the rocks were sharp
this side of the stream.

6 - 2:46 a.m.

I want to be so
badly a wolf whose howl
is—for once—answered.

K.R.Rose is a blind poet and storyteller living in Boston, Massachusetts. She studies fiction writing and poetry at Emerson College, and finds inspiration in the unusual. When she’s not writing, Rose may be drawing, crafting, or exploring antique stores.