"Parks and Re-Creation" by Ken Chamlee

 – you would be really good at it

A mentor’s encouragement at the right moment offered a chance for redirection.

Kenneth Chamlee (Mills River, NC) is Emeritus Professor of English at Brevard College in North Carolina. His poems have appeared in The North Carolina Literary Review, Cold Mountain Review, Ekphrasis, Worcester Review, Naugatuck River Review, and many others, including six editions of Kakalak: An Anthology of Carolina Poets. He has published two award-winning chapbooks, Absolute Faith (ByLine Press) and Logic of the Lost (Longleaf Press) and received three Pushcart Prize nominations. Ken recently completed a poetic biography of 19th century American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt. Check him out at www.kennethchamlee.com.