Doing
Get-the-van-fixed-food-shop-and-
make-lasagna self
missing
the listen
to deep-solitude
self.
While crows scrabble
and joy,
some conjure now to shape
the stillness-field
into language.
The doing
done,
to sit as an open
room
in slow-time
the only
rivet-need
to receive
the sun-stained
daughter
of a voice.
Melanie Green‘s most recent poetry collection, A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm was published by The Poetry Box of Beaverton, Oregon. The titles of her earlier collections are: Continuing Bridge and Determining Sky. She is a resident of Portland, Oregon.
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