Green Linden Press

Titled
North Central Texas

By the charred warehouse—
“A Camp in the Prussian Forest,” Randall Jarrell

By the tall field grasses
unmoving at the moment
a gray barn with wide, open door.
A dirt road curves beside the field.
A light pole leans to the south with a single wire to the outbuilding
as though pulled toward the black hole of the open door.
A blue sky
with a few dangling clouds drift also
toward the low, flat-roofed barn.
I never have walked there to see what is inside.
I stay away from the uncertainly perhaps.
Despite the slow scorn of wind against faith.
The punting against it.
It seems to me
logic
to call upon the unknown one. 
To call home

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Molten Glass Poured on Decomposing Feathers Inside a Round Mold

Pheasant Wing Remains Within Glass 4
Liz Markum
2020
Glass, copper, bone, ash, sand, 10 x 10 x 5” 
UNT CoLAB, Denton, Texas

For Kamloops and Marieval where the bones of Native children
have been found—and for others to come—

They are digging in a field.
A Native residential school or sanitorium for the undoing of structure.

What remains but a line, 2 dots, and the slightest smudge of feathers—
a remnant of flight.

They are digging in a field.

Maybe they will find an ax, a pick.  A nickel from a giant’s pocket.
An idea for re-structure.

The sight of clouds behind the moon transparent as a wing
inside the circle of the glass.

Diane Glancy's latest books, Home Is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit (nonfiction) and Jigsaw (a poetry chapbook) were published in 2022. Forthcoming in 2023 is Psalm to Whom(e). Her other books are on her website www.dianeglancy.com

ISSN 2472-338X
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