THE WORLD GOES FLAT

Listening to the wind do nothing
in particular to the pine needles,
we hike aimlessly between valley walls,
the way we’ve done every weekend.

The landscape grows flatter each year,
under our steps mountains turn to hills

my mind wanders knowing,
one day we’ll stop wishing
our lives away.

Daniel Elias Bliss is a PhD Candidate at Oklahoma State University and world-traveling poet originally from Anchorage, Alaska. His work often focuses on the honest side of rural Americana and the moments that exist in places that end up sticking with us and later defining what we attempt to escape.