Poem in Gingerbread House

I have a new poem

in the current issue of

Gingerbread House Literary Magazine

A journal dedicated 

to publishing poetry & fiction 

with

a magical element.

The poem arose from the sensation - 

while hiking during the extreme part 

of the last drought -

that there were small, stone-like 

human-shaped spirits 

crouching beside the trail, 

watching...

Who were they?

What did they want?

The poem can be found

here.