LINDSAY ROCKWELL

WINTER ISSUE #11 POET

Lindsay Rockwell is poet-in-residence for the Episcopal Church of Connecticut. She’s recently published or forthcoming in Humana Obscura, Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, Tupelo Quarterly, Radar, and SWWIM every day, among others. Her collection, GHOST FIRES, was published by Main Street Rag in April 2023. She is the recipient of the Andrew Glaser Poetry Prize, fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, and Edith Wharton/The Mount residency, as well as an invited participant in the Colrain Manuscript Workshop.

THERE IS TALK AMONG THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

—mercurial—like a balance in an offering hand

moonlight lands like glyph on stone

a fox falls in love with the stampede of stars

a raven shifts from tree to tree to tree

revery—this gentle dark

the quiet—swimming swimming