Like everywhere else,
right here belongs
to the sacred.
Just another place
that belongs
to a sacred world.
For on an extraordinary planet,
there are no ordinary places,
And everywhere
is as old as anywhere.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, the Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Havana Times, the South China Morning Post, the Buffalo News, and more.