Metamorphosis As swans float through a shadow bearing the heavy curve of the moon. As the earth unfolds the flowers' weightless brilliance. That is how I thought the Light would come for me. Would glide upon me wordlessly, wanting love, perhaps, or resignation. And I would assent—to everything, every list and slant of beauty: blue wind with yellow birds, the drifting shore of dawn, the green speech of a root. Each small, surprising loss of heaviness.
Patricia Nelson has worked with the “Activist” group of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her newest book, Monster Monologues, is due out in 2024 from Fernwood Press.
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