COME
An urgent call ignites the body, trembling open to a divine name.
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From ULR
Issue 10 – The Body
TWO BODIES
Night's ark cradles two balanced bodies, intertwined, breathing slow hellos until completely still.
December 17, 2023
Two bodies, balanced in mass and power,
move in a bed through the dark,
under the earliest human hour.
A night rocks, like an ark.
They reach through the ceilings of the night,
tall as animals.
Through their valleys bends the light
of their fertile hills.
Two bodies breathe their close hellos
through interlocking pores,
while that hush of beating slows,
held, with many oars,
heart over heart, leg over leg,
trading still breath, until,
heart over heart, and seed into egg,
night holds two bodies still.
From Earth Days: Poems, Chants, and Spells in Five Directions
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PART OF A COLLECTIONBEING A CONSTELLATION and 2 other poems
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Annie Finch
Annie Finch is an American poet, writer, translator, speaker, teacher, and performer. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Earth Days: Poems, Chants, & Spells in Five Directions (Nirala Publications), Eve and Calendars (both finalists for the National Poetry Series), and Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (awarded the Sarasvati Award). Her other works include essays, books, and anthologies on poetics, feminism, and spirituality. including A Poet’s Craft, The Body of Poetry, and Choice Words: Writers on Aboriton. Educated at Yale and Stanford University, where she earned her Ph.D, she has lectured and traveled widely from her home in New York City to teach and perform.