I stand at a crossroads,
four wood planks
each carved to point
a way forward
into different futures.
It is the cobblestone
road higher that I take
as it becomes a winding path
to windswept vistas.
The Baltic Sea lies before me
looking toward St. Petersburg.
A glass blower throws wild colors
spinning into a profusion
of creations. He stops and brings
me a chair, then a cup of coffee.
In a red, white and blue dress,
so obviously an American,
I find happiness
maybe for the first time,
yet I have no home, no plan
beyond the next breath.
Here, right here in this place
with these people, my heart
finds a haven in Denmark.
Copenhagen By the Sea by Stellsue Lee | Sandalwood Poetry Reed Diffuser Set
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Stellasue Lee was a founding editor of RATTLE, a poetry journal, and is now editor Emerita. Two of her books have been entrants for the Pulitzer Prize, Firecracker Red, and Crossing The Double Yellow Line. Her New & Selected Poems, Queen of Jacks, is now available. Dr. Lee was winner of the grand prize of Poetry To Aide Humanity in 2013 by Al Falah in Malaysia. She teaches privately. Dr. Lee received her Ph.D. from Honolulu University. She was born in the year of the dragon.
