A journal of art + literature engaging with nature, culture, the environment & ecology

inner hebrides, august

J. Freeborn, New York, USA

 

    how many inches

does the quiraing landslip move

in a year    hewn by a series

of mass wasting rifts    buffed from the sou

sou westerly wind     

roll down     gold moss    

to the humming sea    keep trails and name

the formations    needle    table    

    prison    ask 

to taste knowing past language    

   

mearcstapa    

border walker    go betweener    used to

explain the monster grendel loping    

from pool to moor to rend 

belief from the hall

of man    empire of patient 

violence    are you tired    

 

rise

        mark time 

for an eyeless race dissolving    some

    things are slow

        some things are      

 

at the faultline

stand    on the lip    put an ear

to the belly    call 

up her exhale and cherish

    illusion    into space carved

by forgetting

 

J. Freeborn is a teacher and the anthology books managing editor at The Poetry Society of New York.

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