maple, two stories tall, autumn
dying, my leaves sanguine
the maple imagines me
kindergarten crayon sketch,
dust of shattered red dwarfs
the maple imagines me
horizon’s black eye,
bleeding God gums
the maple imagines me
imagining the sunset me,
small supernova
Josiah D. L. Rosell is a recent college graduate who hails from Kansas City, Kansas, and is currently volunteering at the Heifer International Ranch in Arkansas. He has served as the poetry editor and assistant fiction editor for Windfall, Truman State University's undergraduate literary magazine, as well as working at Truman's Writing Center. His poem, "Ant Infestation in an Autumn Public Garden," has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the Rockhurst Review.
