“Before I Understood This Place”
By Poetry Issue 120
I feel I’m floating on a pond
of sadness,
Once Upon a Time
By Poetry Issue 120
the children
were everywhere,
some you gave birth to
and some you didn’t,
On the Fugitive Letters
By Poetry Issue 120
The Z falls from doze
waking us to the forested creature inside
Containment
By Poetry Issue 120
I could not tell you the story of my living.
Terrific tsunami or closed cabinet of heart.
Moses on the Well
By Poetry Issue 120
I let them choose the rock from which the water would flow.
Read MoreNever Mind
By Poetry Issue 120
Called across, calling;
With a receptor there.
Woman of Song
By Poetry Issue 120
Just like you go looking for the rainbow.
Read MoreMountain Plover
By Poetry Issue 120
Isle of femur. Of scapular curl. Isle of skull.
Read MoreLong Obedience in the Same Direction
By Poetry Issue 120
It’s hard not to see
everything these days as prophecy, hard
not to hear a rooster crow and not wonder
how many betrayals are underway.
Mine Own Tom Wyatt
By Poetry Issue 120
Starve, he said,
attraction’s fever, fill your mouth with prayer
instead.