Thank you to editor Glory Sasikala of GloMag for publishing 

my poem in the May issue.

It’s In The Bones

We are predisposed while in the womb 

to act a certain way.

From our first toddling steps,

through the measured time of our lives,

ancestral memories, long prepared,

by the earliest civilizations,

sensibilities first given forward,

then curving back again and again,

are willing to inform us

of some brand of artistic zealotry.

We collectively embrace that trend

toward devotion to the arts.

We’re still shining cardinal features,

ready to be summoned.

Accepting widespread patterns

for the shaping of our cultures,

in the hopes that all this will become

a prelude to a single tradition.