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Earth and Sky
Ellen Roberts Young

Look up: a great void.
How to emulate such
height, such absence?
Father Gods we created
gone without goodbyes,
we raise up substitutes,
as if on ladders, call
them stars, presidents,
wizards of finance.
Not from heights
does our help come.
We have forgotten how
to look down for strength.
Let’s blame the men who
do not trust their mothers.

—
Ellen Roberts Young has two full-length collections, Made and Remade (2014) and Lost in the Greenwood (2020), as well as poems in numerous print and online journals. Her third chapbook with Finishing Line Press, Transported, came out in early 2021. She is and editor of Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders Journal.

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