Joy Patterson is a Senior Creative Writing student at Belhaven University. She has worked as staff on and had her work published in the fine arts journal The Brogue. In spring of 2013, she received th
See the lights from above and try
to pick out familiar places
in glowing cul-de-sacs,
highways, restaurants, homes.
Might as well stare at a fire,
find patterns in soft glowing coals—
the lights