the sun shone so bright & even, / it read to us our fortunes
Platonic Love Poem
Author: psalteryandlyre
no. 3 youth
concentrate & look / to see / my watercolor / palette held / in space
Swell
my ocean like a god never recedes / / but sometimes it withdraws / for a brief breath-holding / leaving the lagoon alack / / the fish gut-sputtering
Resurrection
Mother, I wrote a poem in which I forgave / your sin of omission, your fear of the truth.
Belief
Because takeoff so quickly morphed / / into landing, because the sky so quickly became a bridge and then a body / of water
God’s Plan
Occasionally I pine for a mild disaster such as a really loud cough of thunder
The Right Sky
I have cultivated shadows / that never came to fruit.
Star of David
Every year, my father climbed to the roof in late fall to install his homemade star of David on the top of our house.
Our Lady of the Silverfish
You find the cracks for me—the small space / behind the triangle of peeling wallpaper, / / the crevice in the plaster, the air between / one page and the next. O Lady, show me / / the hidden.
Psaltery & Lyre 