Allison Wilkins
The Way There and Back Again
Cascading casino chips.
Usual graceful beauty of nature.
Keep walking to Las Vegas.
Never stopping
at the large ponderosa pine tree
in the bottom of the canyon. Specialized
scrambles, to the upper pool
filled with seasonal waterfall
But not Vegas, dip a hand
in the tumbling roar.
The trail to Ice Box Canyon, Red Rock.
Chips bang phalanges.
Coil them around a purple circle,
one thousand petals
on its surface, the crown chakra.
Place on top of the head.
Hope to link with the divine
and start backtracking to Virginia.
Allison Wilkins is a graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas International MFA
program. Her poems have appeared in Broken Bridge Review, Sin City Review, Peeks and
Valleys: A Southern Journal, Tiger’s Eye, hotmetalpress and others. Her poems have also been
anthologized. She currently lives in Lynchburg, Virginia with her husband and two dogs. She
is an Assistant Professor at Lynchburg College.J.
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The Way There and Back Again
Cascading casino chips.
Usual graceful beauty of nature.
Keep walking to Las Vegas.
Never stopping
at the large ponderosa pine tree
in the bottom of the canyon. Specialized
scrambles, to the upper pool
filled with seasonal waterfall
But not Vegas, dip a hand
in the tumbling roar.
The trail to Ice Box Canyon, Red Rock.
Chips bang phalanges.
Coil them around a purple circle,
one thousand petals
on its surface, the crown chakra.
Place on top of the head.
Hope to link with the divine
and start backtracking to Virginia.
Allison Wilkins is a graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas International MFA
program. Her poems have appeared in Broken Bridge Review, Sin City Review, Peeks and
Valleys: A Southern Journal, Tiger’s Eye, hotmetalpress and others. Her poems have also been
anthologized. She currently lives in Lynchburg, Virginia with her husband and two dogs. She
is an Assistant Professor at Lynchburg College.J.
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