The Campground

The Campground

Alexandria Barbera

These are rotting
days that decline
multiple offers to
die. I asked them
why; it made no
difference, they
still wrestle the
foul smell of
abandonment,
the hard swallow
of the past and
its now darkened
ecstasies. Inside
the days are a
determined thirst
for a very specific
promise—a green,
undying landscape,
another thrust of
power, another
shot at old glory
by way of revival.
But the bargain
with evil is never
considered: it all
comes down to
the breath of life
that rises like mist
from these weedy,
overgrown grounds.

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Alexandria Barbera
Poet & Editor

Alexandria Barbera lives in Ontario, Canada and is a regular contributor at Women in Theology. She received her Masters of Theological Studies from McMaster Divinity College and recently completed her MA in Cultural Studies at Trent University, where she studied literary ecology. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Other Journal, Frogpond, Tiny Seed Journal, and Modern Haiku. She is currently the editor-at-large at EcoTheo Review.

Photography by Christine Kozak