What is this turning – a poem by Katrinka Moore

What is this turning
 
What is this     turning 		
toward us     in the warm 
wavering air 

that shimmers the field
then flickers     fades

A sort of stir     unwinged          
that shifts to stillness     
over the jewelweed     

Is this the spiraling spirit 	
A stirring that reveals 
and soon recedes  
   
that sometimes sails
above the breeze-brushed 
grass     sometimes becomes

an entity of quiet     a hush 
that stirs us     whids across  
			
the willowherb     light  
hieroglyphs     outside 
the cocoon of language  

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.