Inside the Cut Complexity, by Shirley Glubka

Untitled, by Mildred Giddings Burrage (USA) 1950s

Inside the Cut Complexity 

The mind was split & mended
Each perception divided into more
—Brenda Hillman, "Practical Water"

With disciplined palette the careful clutter built itself, 
angle over decade, space over time, 
crosswise and cautious, 
unreadable

until the explosion, off-centre, prodigious, 
lit the intensities, star-shot over all,
hard, gemlike, pushing its points
into the matrix

and a slow large turn over the waters of creation 
sent new thought spinning, weaving,
through the silver void,
into the heart.

Shirley Glubka

Shirley Glubka is a retired psychotherapist, poet, essayist, and novelist. Her most recent chapbook is Reflections Caught Leaping: poetry and related prose. Her latest novel: The Bright Logic of Wilma Schuh. Shirley lives in Prospect, Maine with her spouse, Virginia Holmes. Website: http://shirleyglubka.weebly.com