Miracle

By Ahrend Torrey

Me writing this poem

is not just me

writing this poem,

it’s the whole human race

having made it through

some of the darkest days:

war, famine, disease,

suffering…

all the way to me sitting on this bench,

thinking about the word miracle,

then writing it,

then deleting it,

then writing it again.

Ahrend Torrey enjoys exploring nature in southern Louisiana where he lives with his husband, Jonathan, their two rat terriers Dichter and Dova, and Purl their cat. He is the author of Bird City, American Eye published by Pinyon Publishing (Montrose, CO) in 2022, and Small Blue Harbor published by the Poetry Box Select imprint (Portland, OR) in 2019.  His work has appeared in storySouth, The Greensboro Review, and The Perch (a journal of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, a program of the Yale School of Medicine), among others. He earned his MA and MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and is a recipient of the Etruscan Prize awarded by Etruscan Press.