COME
An urgent call ignites the body, trembling open to a divine name.
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From ULR
Issue 10 – The Body
BEING A CONSTELLATION
Heavy with milk, mother-sky offers starlight patterns, guiding her small, dense question through gentle darkness.
December 17, 2023
Heavy with my milk, you move
your compact body, though I hold
you dense under a constellation
whose sparse lights ache over you.
If, looking up, you recognize
the shadowing of curves that casts
towards my belly, and the way
my nipples travel, like two stars
You are a question, small and dense,
and I am an answer, long diffuse
and dark, but I want to be sky
for you so, like the stars, I lie,
holding my far lights wide and flat
in pictures for your eyes to take,
spaced easily, so you can catch
the patterns in your sleepy net.
From Earth Days: Poems, Chants, and Spells in Five
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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.