Kelly Neal - Start the Way You Intend to Go: Work

Content Warning: dark themes

Kelly Neal - Start the Way You Intend to Go: Work

Kelly Neal - Start the Way You Intend to Go

Grey and cold all day,

the year begins again.

Cedar pollen drifts wildly;

I can feel the shredded bark

deeply behind my eyes

trying to cut a way out.

I'm not surprised, but fear

all that has changed enough

to become a normal day,

as wolves claw and slaver

at the door.

Kelly Neal - Start the Way You Intend to Go: Work

Kelly Neal was born and raised in South Texas. As soon as he was able, he left for Austin where he now writes and teaches. He is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. Before he started teaching, Kelly worked as a baker at a local French bakery. Poetry, reading, writing, and teaching it, has helped hold him together for decades. He has had a smattering of poems published over the last few years.

Kelly Neal - Start the Way You Intend to Go: Work

Photograph: Deserted Cabin by Linda Hawkins

Linda Hawkins is primarily a watercolor artist, but she also enjoys photography. She and her husband love to travel and explore the great outdoors. Linda captures their adventures on camera, and as a result has plenty of resource material from which to paint. Her visual art has appeared, or is forthcoming in - Flash Frog, The Jupiter Review, Moss Puppy Mag, Pithead Chapel, and Wrongdoing Magazine. You can find her on Twitter: @lindamayhawkins or at: lindamayhawkins.com

Kelly Neal - Start the Way You Intend to Go: Work