Each Awaits Its Rising
Peeling paint lifts into landscape, reeds like a legion of spearheads splitting still water. Shore fronds lean to catch a glimpse of themselves as they expire. Clouds bring together jagged edges, a clapping before thunderclaps, a closing of hasps. Bark labia round into dark lips, trunk opening a birth canal to light. Close by, a lone figure considers, perhaps stepping, perhaps readying for a leap, each form awaiting its continued rising, offering itself to wind and to weather. Devon Balwit Devon Balwit is a poet and educator from Portland, Oregon. She has a chapbook, Forms Most Marvelous, forthcoming from dancing girl press (summer 2017). Her recent poems have appeared in numerous print/on-line journals, among them: Oyez, Red Paint Hill, The Ekphrastic Review, Serving House Journal, The Journal of Applied Poetics, Emerge Literary Journal, Timberline Review, Trailhead Magazine VCFA, The Prick of the Spindle, and Permafrost.
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January 2021
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