Through the Keyhole, by Courtney Edwards

Alice Through the Keyhole, by Gertrude Abercrombie (USA) 1971

Through the Keyhole
 
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle
than for a woman to live all which she envisions through the keyhole
to walk every world ocean and multiply its fishes, 
to taste every sweet truth and remain in her garden,
to move mountains to words, raise bodies from man’s storms, 
and remain soft. 
At night, she spins blood into milk, blesses her sick children
in a moon dress, ascends dreamless realms.
At dawn, she listens for the hymn of her good deeds 
with only the owl as witness. 

​Courtney Edwards

Courtney Edwards is an English teacher and photographer from Portland, OR. Her work has been published by The West Trade Review, Pile Press, The New Zealand Poetry Society, Sonora Review, Suspended Magazine, and Wild Roof Journal. Courtney enjoys traveling, exploring the PNW with her husband and three children, playing the piano, and helping to bring sea otters back to Oregon through the Elakha Alliance. You can connect with her on Instagram at @pnw.courtney