Greg Lovell

CONTACT:
Email: lovellgre@gmail.com

BIO:
Greg’s love of writing began in elementary school and continues through today. He has written for numerous publications as a freelance writer and enjoys the creative process and amplifying stories and ideas worth sharing. Originally from La Crescent, Minnesota, Greg has lived in the Coulee Region his whole life and currently works as an educator residing in La Crosse with his wife and two sons. His poems have appeared in several local publications, three Mark My Words galleries at The Pumphouse, and the Strolling Poems initiative in La Crosse.

Poetry

Isochronism

Steam unfurls in layers
off the gray-brown pile
of hay, mud, and manure.
It is February.

In the barnyard,
black and white cows
stand like hulking
chess pieces and
chew in lucid dullness.

Their breaths, rhythmic
mists, speak of life
as my world
begins and ends.
Begins and ends.

Floating

Here I am peering
into a bay of uncertainty,
my precarious position 
at once familiar and new.

Wondering what could be,
wondering how our story ends,
wondering if the kids will be okay,
wondering about keeping afloat.

A tightening in the jaw,
the nagging itch of worry,
the old descent of warm
sadness wearing its path
down the chest again. 

What a joy it would be
to at once be able to read 
the horizon and be touched by
the noble hand of compassion.