God in the Garden
In the light of owl eyes,
orb of alium seed-head,
centre of sunflower's crown
God appears,
and I am calmed.
In grain of sand; hole of hag stone;
spreading radius of rippled pond;
crossed loops of waggle dance ~
eyes grow wide in wonder:
God is here.
Janina Aza Karpinska achieved an M.A. in Creative Writing & Personal Development, with Merit, at Sussex University, and won 1st prize in The Cannon’s Mouth Poetry Competition shortly after. Her work has featured in Magma #85: Poems for Schools; Poetry in the Waiting Room; Drawn to the Light; Ekphrastic Review; Cold Signal; Raising the Fifth; Sein und Werd, and Epistemic Lit among others. She lives in a house full of books on the south coast of England, and makes writing a daily practice, drawing on a wide variety of styles.
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