like a red arrow and the light comes back.
From the wetlands to the growers’ vines each indigo egg, smaller than a fingernail. Children wish for angels and dream of war.
Not history, not the past. Your future guns his engine at the door.
Chad Prevost is author of A Frequency for Wherever You Are, Signs as Clues and Sometimes Wonders, The Blue Demon, White-Feathered Bodies, Chasing the Gods, and Greatest Hits. A Ph.D. in creative writing from Georgia State, he has led workshops and panels at places like Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Baylor University’s Art and Soul Conference, Austin College, Clemson University, the Yale Writers’ Conference, the Meacham Writers’ Workshop and Lost in the Letters Festival. His writing has been in print in places such as American Poetry Journal, Huffington Post, Matter: A Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Seattle Review, Sentence, The Southern Review and The Washington Post. Chad lives in Chattanooga with his wife and their three children. Hanging Chad, the blog, can be found at chadprevost.com. @chadprevost 15 | T h e B l u e M o u n t a i n R e v i e w ( A n n i v e r s a r y I s s u e )