lee kiblinger

Lee Kiblinger is a teacher and late-blooming poet from Tyler, Texas, where she spends her time devouring novels, grading essays, laughing with three teenagers, and enjoying poetry with other Rabbit Room poets. Her work can be found in Calla Press, Kosmeo Magazine, Ekstasis Magazine, and Heart of Flesh.

the vanishing point

I stood in a dusty gallery 

with an aged landscape— 

framed with 

foreground trees

bent inward 

beneath blue,

the horizon’s steep 

sky enfolded over 

burgeoning branches, 

in view 

distant figures, 

a lifeless horse,

blurred—

the artist’s lines

swallowing,

their end,

a destiny,

inferred

and I wondered—

at its two dimensions,

man-mixed colors,

the curtain of trees

of knowledge, 

of life,

framing the scene, 

forging skyline—

that what is formed

with words, and dust 

could converge

with what’s imagined,

a promised line

between earth

and heaven—

so that my eyes

have nowhere else

to go—

but to that point, 

invisible, but known,

the place where 

storied trees

are fully grown.

Read Lee’s work and more in Solum Journal Volume IV.