Athena Kildegaard: Poem

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Having Chosen the Near Bank 

Water flows wide and thin between ice,
the deeper ice dark yellow and coursed by silt,
ice above blue and luminous, like sky
on the river, only today it’s overcast, no shadows,
no reflections, my breath making clouds.
It’s too cold to stand on the bridge.
I flow between seasons, sieve out
what I’ve ported past barn and sheafs
of cattails, past beaver lodge and powerline.
I can feel the inevitable rising up, wide and thin.

 

"tundra-esk-ish-ness" © Chris Darling

 


Art Information

  • "Tundra-esk-ish-ness" © Chris Darling; Creative Commons license 

 


Athena Kildegaard

Athena Kildegaard is the author of three books of poetry: Rare Momentum (Red Dragonfly Press, 2006), Bodies of Light (Red Dragonfly Press, 2011, a Minnesota Book Award finalist) and Cloves & Honey (Nodin Press, 2012). She lives in Morris, Minnesota.

 

Learn more about her at athenakildegaard.com.


 

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