Vantage Points
The town’s highest point
isn’t the water tower
or the banker’s hilltop house.
Though some believe
the spire atop the church
makes you think of heaven,
from the public library
anyone
can see forever.
David Olsen won the 2013 Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award; Unfolding Origami will appear in early 2015. Poetry chapbooks from US publishers include:
Sailing to Atlantis (2013), New World Elegies (2011), and Greatest Hits (2001).