A field
questions curl and wriggle, worms in the soil of a child mind. stir
silently in earth where life seeds and dies.
have you noticed the same quality of light cracks at dawn, at
grief, at birth?
red-tipped leaves, stylishly frosted, at the top of a tree’s
triangular crown.
today’s our last turn to see once-in-a-lifetime Comet Atlas.
why do we care about the future when we’ll no longer be here?
Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books; winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize), and two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Her writing appears in many venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Pleiades, New American Writing, Lana Turner, VOLT, Brooklyn Rail, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Poetrysociety.org, and NPR, and she’s a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards.