Leap of Faith, by Robert L. Dean, Jr.

Leap of Faith, by Steven Schroeder, (USA). 2016. Click on link for artist site.

Leap of Faith

We reach out
barren armed
in our aloneness

probe with one long
bony finger
the void

the stuff of our
dreamless days
firmly rooted in

nothing
on the edge of
nothing

thrust up
naked hallelujahs
beseeching

the sky oh the sky
will bless us
if we can but

see it
take that
first step

into other, which is of course
just more
of us

out there
somewhere
everywhere

coming home
to where we
never left.

​Robert L. Dean, Jr.

Robert L. Dean, Jr.'s work has appeared in Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Illya’s Honey, Red River Review, River City Poetry, Heartland!, and the Wichita Broadsides Project. He read at the 13th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in April 2018 at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. His haibun placed first at Poetry Rendezvous 2017. He was a quarter-finalist in the 2018 Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry contest. He has been a professional musician and worked at The Dallas Morning News. He lives in Augusta, Kansas.