Cassie Premo Steele’s most recent poem to appear here was Bigger Fish to Fry (March 2013). Her poetry collections This is how honey runs, The Poemgranate Papers, and Wednesdays are available at Unbound Content and her new book (her 13th!), Earth Joy Writing will be released by Ashland Creek Press on April 22. Learn more about it here.

The Sign
By Cassie Premo Steele

I used to wander the yard
in wonder of where, year
after year, I was going,
looking and listening
for signs and songs to
tell the way. Today I
sit still in my house,
knowing the road is
my own blood and
I am walking it daily,
the only sign I need
my own hand moving,
the only song I sing
my own breath moving.