Karen Earle
Light
end-winter’s
frankensteining
sky stitched
indigo early
star-stained
night’s cold
conspiring with
the ice-broken
unfurls golden
pirouettes
fox-hound hills
branch-dance
tidal turn
and return
whirlpooled
murmurating
birds wake-chant
frostbitten
field and forest
light edging
each fern its crown
each shrub its sticks
Karen Earle is a private practice psychotherapist. Her poetry has appeared in various journals, including: The G W Review, Chaffin Journal, Chaminade Literary Review, The Denver Quarterly Literary Review, Hudson Valley Echoes, Sugar House Review, Clade Song, SWWIM, and is upcoming in Tupelo Press Anthology The Last Milkweed and The Lily Poetry Review. She was a semi-finalist in the The Slapering Hol Chapbook Contest, awarded a Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing fellowship and has attended several Colrain Poetry Manuscript conferences. She lives in Shelburne Falls, MA.