KNOT Magazine
Fall Issue 2022
Scott Thomas Outlar
Comes the Vision
It would be 5 a.m.
but the clocks fell back
Still, at 4 a.m.
I’m wired
With the rain falling
outside my open window
Reading great verses
penned by brilliant poets from around the world
All in the comfort
of a room where I work, eat, sleep, live
Just remember once in awhile
to take a good deep breath
In this calm peaceful moment
visions of the future are vivid
Art is vital to evolution
I can see it in the way the genes swarm
Though hope may occasionally shutter
my faith is as solid as a rock
Because light shines from great minds
around the world
The view of a focused Renaissance
appears to crystallize into perfect form
Stare
An opossum
in the midnight rain
strolls/scampers/skates
across the street
picking at the grass
on the far side
as I sit/stare/smile
on the porch
Rare encounters
in the suburbs
such as these
get me all fired up
about synchronicity
in the eyes of nature
A deer
from the same spot
stared back at me
some weeks ago
during the same hour
as I smoked
and we shared
our perfect
priceless
moment
Sing Along
Raindrops
splish splash
in driveway puddles
Wet leaves
soak the moisture/even
as they lose vitality
Foggy six o’clock
post meridiem blues
sing solemnly
Whistling winds
add subtle flare
to the evening symphony
I sit/smile/
soak in the beauty/shiver
Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry and fiction can be found. His chapbook "Songs of A Dissident" was released in January of 2016 through Transcendent Zero Press, and his words have appeared recently in venues such as Words Surfacing, Fauna Quarterly, Yellow Chair Review, Dissident Voice, and Literary Orphans.