New Poetry from Chad Corrigan: “Hidden Mountain Tops”

SMOKE CLOUDS / image by Amalie Flynn

The top of the mountain is hidden.
It looks like a cloud of smoke.
But it’s a snow filled cloud.
The map says it’s thirty-seven hundred
and sixty-nine feet.
The clouds must be about thirty-four hundred.
From their helicopter cockpits
they still look up
dwarfed by the mountain
and ceiling.
Small against the storm.

Chad Corrigan

Chad Corrigan is a soldier and writer. He has served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. His work can be found in the anthology Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War.

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