(PROSE POETRY)

IT'S IN OUR NATURE

​CHRIS KAISER
I can no longer fault you for what I did to our lives, no more than I can blame the calendar for the falling leaves. It was that last talk we had, during our walk in the state park, where myriad life forms prepared for scarcity, something I ignored when with you. We climbed over fallen trees and puddled through the shallow creek, so easy, you remarked, to navigate the seemingly chaotic and sentient nature of the woods. It seemed strange that among the beauty of dying nature we had a moment of clarity about the death of our love. 
Chris Kaiser’s poetry appears in Action Moves People United, a music and spoken word project partnered with the United Nations. The Sebastopol Center for the Arts in California awarded him for erotic writing. He is co-editor of the book When Falls the Coliseum and has won awards for his medical journalism. He has a master’s in theatre and lives outside Philadelphia.