I Am
I am bees beelines beehives bee swarms
I am Moonlight Starlight
I am Princess Kay of the Milky Way
I am Bush Lake and Hardware Hank’s
Moir and Running Parks
Riverside and Indian Mounds
I am the Land of Sky Blue Waters
I am WCCO –– high above the Foshay Tower
I am WDGY the Twins and the Vikings
I am the Golden Gopher
I am Excelsior Amusement Park
a wooden roller coaster
a Ferris wheel looking down
on Lake Minnetonka
I am Lake Nokomis
Hiawatha
the Minnehaha Falls
the Black Dog Power Plant –– the bluffs
high above the river
I am the Guthrie and the Walker
I am Hennepin –– before Uptown
I am Dinkytown
I am the Stone Arch Bridge
Saint Anthony Falls
General Mills and Pillsbury Flour
I am mosquitoes and blizzards
I am the flats along the river where potatoes grow
and sometimes perish beneath water
A note––
“I Am,” won the 2021 Eastern Shore Writers Association Crossroads Contest but this is first publication.
Alice Morris, a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, also a Best of the Net nominee was awarded the 2022 Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Emerging Literature; Poetry. Her prize-winning prose and poetry appears in numerous anthologies and publications including Gargoyle, Bay to Ocean Journal, The Broadkill Review, Backbone Mountain Review, Rat’s Ass Review, and Paterson Literary Review. She comes to writing with a background in art which was published in The New York Art Review.