“Writer’s High” was inspired by Mary Oliver’s “Forty Years.”

Writer's High

 When words flow,
 growing ideas
 quickly, fervently
 like purple petunias
 spreading like velvet waves
I become lost
 yet free, found
 feeling other
like the runner’s high
setting in 
after miles run.
 This writer’s high
transports me from
time, town to make-believe
where I thrive other-worldy
 until a dog nose
cold, wet on the elbow
grounds me.

Sascha Darlington