Another Country

Another Country

Mike Dillon

I’ve held nothing back
from strangers, friends & family
except the one thing
which is everything.
Somewhere deep-down inside me
there’s a white chapel
in a dark-green forest.

And I, in a loud, raucous room
of unaimed hubbub, prattle
and billboard nametags
am the one who smiles back
from the silence of a pew
deep in the forest
at whatever it was you were saying.

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Mike Dillon
Poet

Mike lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. His poetry has appeared in Dappled Things, St. Austin Review, The Galway Review, Miramar and numerous other publications in this country and abroad. His most recent book of poems is a chapbook, The Return, from Finishing Line Press (2021).

Photography by Anderson W Rangel