Dream – a poem by Katrinka Moore

Dream 

of a pure — something — 
so clear it barely casts 
a shadow     Scarcely 
wavers when a wind 
picks up     Like spring 
water caught in cupped 
hands — see the lines 
of the palms   slight gaps 
between fingers   opening 
to the shining stream		
beneath     

Katrinka Moore is the author of five poetry books, most recently Diminuendo (Pelekinesis, 2022). Her poems and artwork appear in Terrain.org, Otoliths, Utriculi, Cold Mountain Review, Wild Roof Journal, Woven Tale, and SWWIM, among other journals. She lives in the northern Catskills in New York state and is a longtime Tai Chi practitioner.