Not going quietly
A poem by N.T. Chambers
Later that same lifetime watching from my imprisoned immobility summer is dying a glorious, blazing outside death all too soon all too often for the newly naked maples shivering with every fallen breeze that offers a gusty chilled embrace. No new lover this lusty reckless wind will linger past sullen November days as well as December-dusted nights through the frozen hours that lie ahead until once again the dulcet pleadings of a lucid sun send him abruptly on his way when anxious skies revive the slumbering life below. They have been seen often, but never enough, these winds and other lovers - howling their lament over so brief a season - then, with lungs replenished, cry out for something more – all in cosmic cadence to an indifferent universe.
N.T. Chambers (we/us), a native Chicagoan, has led an interesting life before becoming a writer. Among many jobs held were: cab driver, bus driver, sales drone, pizza deliverer, wine merchant, improv actor, editor, educator, professional counselor, and, of course, every writer's "go to" job - bartender. The author’s works have been published in the following magazines and journals: Grassroots, In Parentheses, You Might Need to Hear This, The Elevation Room, Wingless Dreamer, Months to Years, New Note Poetry, Bright Flash Literary Review, Quibble, Indolent Books, Banyan Review, Inlandia, The Orchards Poetry Journal, The Decadent Review, Emerald Coast Writers, Share Literary Journal, Bluebird Word, Red Coyote, Bookends Review, Flint Hills Review Anthology, Gabby & Min Publications, Blaze Vox 23, SBLAAM, Academy of the Heart and Mind, Cool Beans, Black Coffee Review, Salmon Creek Journal, The Journal of Expressive Writing, WILD Sound Writing Festival and Mantis.
