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.