Watermelon

Child, if you care to remember

this world, this life

you dream like a path

of certain distance quickly

walked and centered on a hill,

if you care to open it like

watermelon in summer

or like a prayer box

bearing a constellation of crosses

and sunsets, I hope

you consider your father,

his overtures to death

his music, and like sunlight

through the sprinkler

on a simple greening lawn,

his smile.


Kyle Kimberlin
2009

Submissions

This site was created to offer an opportunity for sharing work and networking, for poets and writers in our area.

We consider our area to be generally Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties, in California.

If you live around here, and you'd like to join us, have your work presented online, and have a chance to network with other writers and poets in the area, we'd love to hear from you.

We're accepting submissions of poetry and short fiction. Right now, there's no formal submission process; that may change if things take off.

Please send an e-mail using one of the links below to start a dialog. We look forward to working with you.

Kyle Kimberlin
Carpinteria

Joseph Gallo
Goleta