27 August 2009 | Vol. 9, No. 2
Shelter #3: Felled
The planet
let its
tendrils hang
off of
the surface,
reaching down
to the
sky that
drags its
black pricked
sheet leaking
pinhole light
leading to
even the
most meek
puddle where
life worms
its way
into being
winged. It
dries and
fills, dries
and fills
again until
it doesn't.
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About the author:
Carolyn Guinzio is the author of Quarry (Fall 2008, Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press), and West Pullman (Bordighera, 2005), winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Cannibal, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Typo, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Bard College and lives in Fayetteville, AR.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Carolyn Guinzio at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 9, No. 2, where "Shelter #3: Felled" ran on August 27, 2009. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
