Les Bernstein

Les Bernstein's poems have appeared in journals, presses and anthologies in the U.S.A. and Europe. Her chapbooks Borderland, Naked Little Creatures and Amid the Din have been published by Finishing Line Press. Les is a winner of the 6^th annual Nazim Hikmet Festival.She also was a Pushcart Prize Nominee for 2015. Les lives in Mill Valley, California with her enormous family.

The Much More

Les Bernstein

Featured, Issue 56, Spring 2019

when the world was new

they planted a flag in the much more

spread themselves into the future

below a limitless sky

they built their home

with care and optimism

ruddy with trust in sunny days

and shiny well being

they grew to other bigger homes

but they were vandalized by time

the truth of shortening days

spread its substantive shadow

as walls of memories crumbled

they had to learn to live lightly

their home now becoming

dust powder bone

there is nothing unique in this story

or life's commanding gravitational pull

they held hands tightly

for as long

as they could