CHRISTE BUCHOVECKY

SPRING/SUMMER 2022 ISSUE #04 POET

CHRISTIE BUCHOVECKY returns to poetry to examine truths we hold within ourselves after over a decade adrift, searching for truth in science and academia. A geneticist in New York City, she devotes her days to finding answers for families caught in the diagnostic odyssey. In the evenings, she can be found enjoying good food, games, and laughter with her chosen family, or curled up on the couch with her husband and cats, notebook in hand.

OVERCAST

Home is loving a thunderstorm in summer,
panting in oppressive heat, stifled, exhausted,
able to do nothing but close your eyes 
against the sun, try to hide in the shade.

The anxious excitement
as you notice the leaves twist,
bare themselves to the sky, waiting—
the whole world caught on an inhale.

Watching the clouds roll in, on edge,
every cell aware heaven is about to split open,
unsure if it will cry out in pain—or rage

yet welcoming it, this certainty:
everything is about to change.