narrative of a day of snow/ a breaking relationship i all day clouds gather temperatures start to fall snow is coming soon ii snowflakes dance all day twirl about : alive with light until they are done iii love makes angel-wings falling snow fills all with white leaving and forgetting […]
Cordelia Hanemann
Cordelia Hanemann, writer and artist, currently co-hosts Summer Poets, a poetry critique group in Raleigh, NC. Professor emerita retired English professor, she conducts occasional poetry workshops and is active with youth poetry in the North Carolina Poetry Society. She is also a botanical illustrator and lover of all things botanical. She has published in numerous journals including, Atlanta Review, Laurel Review, and California Review; in several anthologies including best-selling Poems for the Ukraine and her chapbook. Her poems have been performed by the Strand Project, featured in select journals, won awards and been nominated for Pushcarts. She is now working on a novel about her Cajun roots.
In and Out of My Shadow
Nevertheless, I dislike/ The way the ants crawl/ In and out of my shadow. Wallace Stevens Smash-scrunch-crunch-smash again smash: 1-2-40-100-127, a scattering of ant bodies –the parade of ants creeping no longer across my kitchen floor, my guilt. My heart is heavy as my hand. All this death, yet I have murdered no […]
plane has an element of blank
a line is the trajectory between two points black without innocence or intent measuring the span beginning and end dividing the world into manageable halves _________________________________________ this feeling predatory raw insists on its place loudandlarge it sucks up all the air no ingenuous black mark connecting unseen points across the blank page it thickens precariously consuming the negative space that gives it shape its urgency defies physics devours the […]