On Receiving A Book of Poems in the Mail

 

ON RECEIVING JOAN FISET'S

HOW IT LOOKS AWAY FROM HERE

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY SABRINA ROBERTS

 

Ephemeral or maybe evanescent

talking about tree limbs

there were blossoms

and the Hebrew Bible

open to something she

had discussed with the rabbi

back when freedom riders

others too

something looking away

but it was there

and real like a word

qualifying her for

looking in cupboards

speaking of God

 

Jim

26 September 2020