Lauren Camp's newest book of poems is called The Dailiness (Edwin E. Smith Publishing) and she's the author of This Business of Wisdom (West End Press). She writes the poetry blogs Which Silk Shirt and Notes to Cecil. On Sunday evenings, she hosts “Audio Saucepan,” a global music/poetry program on KSFR 101.1FM Santa Fe Public Radio.
I sit
between black lava and ash
dust-brushed and shaken
amid suggestion of bone
in the curve of the place without sky
rose-lipped clouds beneath...
Continue reading...30. June 2013
Wind waggles the small oriole,
plume-bulged, through the intersection,
and he crosses off to the side:
ragged wing, swoop black –
he nicks the street near the orange jeep,
leans in half-numb, I think,
with all this strew
and whistle. Sky sails to a blue roof...
15. May 2014
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