Sarah Gridley |
Arethusa
Sequent evening slopes inside, carries the sound of the caller. Distinctly
out of sync, the double rapping of the carpenter frog, mating knock
of the hummock, its earth-swallowed packets, its gists of pollen
in the peat’s dark core. Nymph
that the huntress
dug an escape for — faceless in the weir, an in beyond
a glass or dam, escaped I am of the mirror
branching. In sequin
switches of light, in wending rash
of magnifications.
Thread in. Morning lens
to a bog orchid claw, to its yellow life in the wetland body.
Sarah Gridley
Arethusa first appeared in Fourteen Hills
Posted on May 16, 2006 7:26 AM