May 15, 2014
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
first grinding of pigment and palette:
knife
broken pastel
a thousand forms of time
All we have is yesterday
before we get there.
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.
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