Psalm

by Kathryn Knight Sonntag

—I am of lanterns, 
but who is (dark arm, archangel) 
lighting them, which ones mean

what (enduring thing) – sometimes sky is such
a blue glow, my leaves weep
for the holding (impossible endings). my lanterns are 

all soft-tipped diamonds with yellow
hearts. I am (above as below)
not sure what kind

of tree I am, or where 
I stand (in world or dream) only 
that it is forever dusk 

here, or is it twilight (undying) who keeps 
my lights in radiance soft but urgent, in 
the center of worlds

promising—

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Kathryn Knight Sonntag is the poetry editor of Wayfare Magazine, the author of The Mother Tree (Faith Matters Publishing, 2022), winner of the 2022 BIBA Literary Award in Non-Fiction: Religion, and of the poetry collection The Tree at the Center (BCC Press, 2019). Her poems appear most recently in Image Journal, Colorado Review, Rock & Sling, and Four Way Review. She works as a freelance writer and land planner in Salt Lake City.

Image: Vlad Kutepov

ID: Close up of a green leaf.