| Featured Poems
This page will change occasionally with new featured poems, while the previous poems will always be available. Phrases Strong and Perfect Inupiaq tribe, White Mountain, Alaska
To the Eskimo, glances are actions. And of actions, they leave a bright trail to read
so that when two crows hit against the glass window where Linky was, she said, something has happened!
she said nothing comes here without significance, that even the wind blows as God’s breath
shaking the willows, taking its leaves. She said what I said, that even dusk talks in long sentences of color.
Everything that shifts, moves, but not only for itself like the sun dropping a strong phrase of light
on a child, like the child giving a crow call the same moment as Linky sights the birds.
This is what the cold has taught. How the world is of words though no one is speaking
how the days went as this day went, which has nothing to do with time.
Mountain Review“(Boone, NC) Spring 2009] Therése Halscheid |
