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The hot wind writes its name,
swirling grains in the restless vortex,
a mystical, ageless, circular dance.
Where whirling charged atoms
come to settle between gusts
into familiar shapes, frozen waves
in this strangely desolate and arid ocean,
forming idiosyncratic hills and ridges
that defy any notion that time can be tamed.
Gary Glauber is a poet, fiction writer, teacher, and music journalist. He is a storyteller, and most of his works are reflective and narrative, falling somewhere on the poetic spectrum between the surreal whimsy of James Tate and the philosophical musings of John Koethe. Writing often is a search in the dark for the great unknown, and while the play with words and language to express such stories might not always offer big answers, at least it can lead to better questions. Good storytelling is based in truth, and therein is its transformative power. At its best, poetic writing speaks in a pure voice that strikes a resonant chord with readers. Glauber took part in The Frost Place’s conference on teaching poetry. Recent poems are published or forthcoming in The Compass Rose, The Fine Line, Kitchen, The Single Hound, The Whistling Fire, and StepAway Magazine.