Cindy Bousquet Harris

Issue 20

questions don’t have to

wild garden,

swing the

long-stemmed
thunder,

light

the
snow

and other summers,

break

what never asks

my
heart

to

come alive.


Source & Method

“questions don’t have to” is an erasure poem from Ben Angel’s interview of poet R.T. Sedgwick, in A Word with You Press.

Cindy Bousquet Harris is a poet, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and an editor at Spirit Fire Review. Her poems can be found in Nostos Literary Journal, Pomona Valley Review, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, and several anthologies.


Photo by Trang Ta