Worlds Between, by Nancy Jentsch

Zwischenwelten (Worlds Between), by Bianca Artopé (Germany), 2015. Click on image to visit artist at www.artope.com.

worlds between
          
cloudy pink
tiles forest floor
trees reach
like sylvan
cathedral columns
branches arch
to gothic points
form windows
stained by starry night
that welcome prayers
              from trunk and twig
              planed pews
              worlds between

Nancy Jentsch
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Nancy Jentsch has taught German and Spanish for over thirty years at Northern Kentucky University. She has published scholarly articles, short fiction and poetry in journals such as Journal of Kentucky Studies, Eclectica, Aurorean, and Blinders. Her chapbook, Authorized Visitors, has been published by Cherry Grove Collections, an imprint of WordTech Communications (2017). Seven of her ekphrastic poems appear in the collaborative chapbook Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her Facebook writer’s page is https://www.facebook.com/NancyJentschPoet/.