Rest on the rocks,
feel their reassuring solidity,
take a deep breath to still
the panic that rises like bile,
recite the litany
against fear
and imagine
Sisyphus happy.
At the Crossroads
Agnes Vojta grew up in Germany and now lives in Rolla, Missouri where she teaches physics at Missouri S&T and hikes the Ozarks. Agnes is the author of Porous Land (Spartan Press, 2019), The Eden of Perhaps (Spartan Press, 2020), and A Coracle for Dreams (Spartan Press, 2022). Her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines; you can read some on her website agnesvojta.com.