Utopia

by Maureen Tolman Flannery

A place to live
           the grace
of "less is more"
           uplifted
by the holy word:
           enough,
and another place
           next door
to store the stuff

Maureen Tolman Flannery is editor of Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places and author of Secret of the Rising Up: Poems of Mexico and Remembered into Life. Her poems have appeared in thirty-five anthologies and journals including Meridians, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Evansville Review, and Atlanta Review. She lives in Chicago with an actor and their four children.