Evening Mantra Pour dusk’s song like wax from guttering candle that leaves a hushed stripe Listen to cat’s drowsy breath a stately Sarabande accompanying flame’s dance Sense pendulum sway in counterpoint to cat’s dreaming sleep Knit and purl a wish to frame and mount the moment despite clock’s mocking tick
Nancy K. Jentsch’s poetry has appeared recently in Eclectica, EcoTheo Review, Panoply and in numerous anthologies. In 2020, she received an Arts Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her chapbook, Authorized Visitors, was published in 2017 and her writer’s page on Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/NancyJentschPoet/
Amethyst Review 