when i fall plummeting sure as an arrow into the deep waters of love it doesn’t matter that it's black as the pit my eyes are faulty but my heart is sure
yet navigating by the heart is a tricky business akin to being a privateer marauding the open ocean for a prize
there is none warranted to issue an act of grace hence we with no protection are held accountable for all we do
and in the court of love judgment albeit made by arbiters with scant and often flawed illumination is not only swift but final
no point in reappearing in the ragged threadbare cloak of the appellant no point in moving for mistrial for once the sentence is pronounced it is immutable and graven in the record for all time
RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized, notably in Uno: A Poetry Anthology (Verian Thomas, 2002), New York City Haiku (NY Times, 2017), Cowboys & Cocktails (Brick Street Poetry, April 2019), Nature In The Now (Tiny Seed Press, August 2019), in print in 2River, Adelaide Magazine, borrowed solace, Genre Urban Arts, Gravitas, In Parentheses, Night Picnic Journal, Prairie Schooner, Reality Break Press, Southword, Variant Literature, among many others and appears in numerous online literary journals.
