Dark dawn, searchlight, take the chainsaw and our son fresh firpine chosen in the fog air, cut it down brave, the one tree already ready, almost, to fall: flowercrowned, worshiping rainbow ribbon silky on the spool, liquid chrysalis, my task water, rosemary remembering, sea salt, tears, in the glass bowl scattering true patterns woven in and out like lightwaves orient suntilt always orbiting the rottrunk blooming in the backyard, shy mayflower, lost violet we wake to find drystraw lifecovered, weeping cherry, old scars, healing the green nipplebud opening, a newsprung branch.
Katherine Hagopian Berry (she/her) has appeared in the Café Review, Enough: Poems of Resistance and Protest, Balancing Act II: An Anthology of Poetry by Fifty Maine Women, Glass: Poet’s Resist, and Frost Meadow Review. Her first collection of poetry, Mast Year, was published by Littoral Books in March 2020. She has work forthcoming in Strange Fire, Jewish Voices on the Pandemic, and Rise-Up Review, and is a poetry reader for the Maine Review.
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