DC Poets: Denise Folwell

In Goreme

Sitting on an outcropping of rock

Protected by the shade of a small tree

We belonged so precisely to the solid earth

And the distant volcanic mountains

To the hot, cloudless sky

While everything claimed its perfection

And inner and outer somehow merged

I disappeared a little while

With you

Denise Folwell is Professor of English at the Rockville Campus of Montgomery College.  She teaches composition, literature, and poetry writing. She is a founding member of the Peace and Justice Studies Community at Montgomery College. She received both her B.A. in English and Religious Studies and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia.