Field Work
By Katrinka Moore
It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
Her mind a passerine claws firm on the bough her body a flowering tree She knows what’s blooming A luminist she sees light fall into woods waft over the undergrowth A numinist she reflects the weave of seen and unseen What’s in her fieldbox A spectrum spirit tin spyglass spirals a mud-splattered map of the air
“Field Work” appears in Katrinka Moore’s latest book, Diminuendo (Pelekinesis, 2022). Recent work appears in Terrain.org, Cold Mountain Review, Hole in the Head re:View, Wild Roof Journal, Half Mystic, Feral, Gyroscope, Barzakh, TheNewVerse.News, and Exposition Review. With her mentee in the PEN American Prison Writing Program, Moore was awarded the L’Engel-Rahman Prize for Mentorship. See katrinkamoore.com.
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This brought light to my morning in the best way.. What a way to start my day!