What Can I Say About Eating Raisins During the Storm?

I’m not confident
          the storm’s end has come.
It hasn’t flattened my home
          nor tattered my hope.
All will ride the rainbow
          to the other side,
We don’t know when.
The present wind,
          no matter
          direction
          is now my friend.
None of us controls weather
          and fear is a lying dictator.
Let my master be the one
          who’s always been there with me
          even in the dismantling.
Living on the edge, I look directly into the sun.

©️ 2025 Laura E. Garrard

This poem was first published in Amethyst Review and also now appears in Laura E. Garrard’s debut book, Paddling the Sweet Spot Between Life and Death. Laura E. Garrard is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a multiple myeloma thriver living in the Northwest.