Floating like a feather
like a single grain in the sea
grateful despite being alive
craving grace as I crave evening
cradling rage as I cradle no vicar
I think I might just be a clock
& juju power in a terrible century
a needle & the way to plunge it in
dancing through a meadow away
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floating like singular rage
unlike twenty sheaves of feathers
like a vicar alive & dancing anyway
craving this terrible century
and every clock cradled in the sea
I think I’ll always be the needle
grateful for my grain & juju power
and all the ways to plunge into it
in this meadow just for an evening
From Blue on a Blue Palette (BOA Editions, 2024). Copyright © 2024 by Lynne Thompson. Reprinted with the permission of the poet.