Mosaic of the Dark is drenched in metaphor, mystery, and prayer. Dordal, in her acquired wisdom, has produced a book of poetry that transcends a woman’s story to become a spiritual awakening.
Book Review: Mosaic of the Dark, by Lisa Dordal
Creating Sacred Space in Labrador: Conversation 5
European colonization comes in the shape of a hierarchical, patriarchal triangle. “There’s no way to decolonize,” she continues, “without that spiritual understanding, without getting back into the spiritual circle.”
Good Friday
I carry the cross down the hill / while my brothers cackle and scourge / me until I tire
Christ-Dreams: Labor
She is having contractions, / and the Kingdom of Heaven / is splitting apart her legs.
Poem Beginning with Lines from Rumi
Don’t pray to be healed, or look for evidence / of “some other world.” / There is no other.
What She’ll Do
what she’ll do—one bottle of hoarded pills / and one of good bourbon, a spot she’s picked / at the base of a hickory
Symptoms and Pathology of Swallowing a Foreign Object: A Symposium
God: / Which is my best invention— / swallowing or vomiting? / I still can’t decide.
Flu
I made a blanket out of sideways glances / and spent the day taunting the fish.
Best New Poets 2019
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Psaltery & Lyre 