Who among you will dispute? / close affinity between Ruminants and Pachyderms
Parable of Ruminants
Author: psalteryandlyre
Elegy for the Lost Carry-On
When I lament the bag trapped somewhere / in the bowels of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 / / The agent asks is any of it irreplaceable?
Heat Storm
When the thunder / cracked above / and God poured water / upon the earth
Hair Narratives
It’s the young French father’s longer arms / that first reach their daughter’s hair / in which her clasp is tangled.
What a Wave Is
I watch the moon lean against the branches empty / trees wrap its curves to the scent of spring its green / rhetoric
Doubter’s Psalm
I will hear your words, O Lord, / I will sing and selah with my mouth; / I will teach, I will study, I will serve with my hands, / But in my heart, O Lord, / I will hesitate.
Ever Laboring
and still I reorder these bones you no longer need
religion
yellow. i don’t know why i need to tell you that / but i do. it was yellow and it was the color / of understanding my mortality.
Book Review: Quantum Heresies, by Mary Peelen
My world cracked open in fourth grade when we learned our planets. In college, when my chemistry professor said, “Sometimes I wish I had studied astronomy instead of chemistry,” my universe expanded again. Moments like these are precious. The poems in Mary Peelen’s Quantum Heresies offer a similar shattering-of-the known-world effect.
Psaltery & Lyre 