She was the executive editor of Measure Review, but has since closed the journal. She has one additional collection, a chapbook called Become All Flame. Her work has also been included in Luke Hankins’ anthology Poems of Devotion (Wipf & Stock, 2012). She is presently compiling her next full-length collection which she calls How to Burn.
The following poem first appeared in Literary Matters.
Adam, Waking
Magnolia blossoms: lustrous as the moon
and smooth as ivory, soft against his skin—
but even in his dreams, he’s cursed: as soon
as he reaches out, they fall apart—again,
again—that vision of the delicate
ghostly petals strewn across the stone,
the distant knowledge of the guarded gate—
and his waking realization:
-------------------------the Garden is gone.
Restless now, he stares at the rising sun,
that golden apple laid in a pool of blood—
but the lambs were sacrificed,
-------------------------the seed was sown,
and remembering the past has done no good.
But then the birdsongs quicken, still the same,
so with a broken voice, he recites each name.
Entry written by D.S. Martin. He is the author of six poetry collections including Angelicus (2021, Poiema/Cascade), plus three anthologies — available through Wipf & Stock. His new book The Role of the Moon, inspired by the Metaphysical Poets, is now available from Paraclete Press.
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