Amy Mcullough

Amy McCullough lives and writes (mostly) in the Pacific Northwest. She is a former public interest attorney who spent years fighting to dismantle systemic barriers attendant to poverty in the USA. She draws inspiration for her poetry and short stories from her travels and the Pacific coast. 

On the Shore, Pried Open

Another winter sky camouflaged as ocean camouflaged as sky I try to shapethe shapeless state of things. I renew my wish for grappling hooks, not to anchorbut to pry apart the clouds and wring the coward out of blue. By now, perpetualentreaty: halt my is and am(bition)’s retreat, and wait, wait, wait for a waveof meaning. For want in passing its gnawing quiet when only ankle deep. I bendtoward the thing washed ashore. Do not ask again “what are you looking for?”Some- one- any- thing to break my heart, whispered in(to) the indifferent wind.

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On the Shore, Pried Open

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