Maureen Donatelli’s most recent poem to appear here was Daydream at the End of Winter (March 2013)
Ars Poetica
By Maureen Donatelli
However unlikely, it all depends
upon the pulse soft skin
along the inner wrist, the tiny bones
the tangled curve of fingers
guiding ink flow,
words divining ground
finding the seep, planting spaces
for breath. And it’s better
when rivers of troubled rain
carve a fine blue sky in the window,
when there is ease in the snap
of chestnuts leaving the tree.
How does the air part silent
before each colossal endeavour to seed?
Listening to the pulse, the ear gathers
what forgiveness it can find in wounds,
searches their names, while the full warm heart
spills song across the page.
And somewhere in the gut the soul
births anew on each breath breaking open.
Rest and venture, rest and venture.
Some reasons suffer questions, others echo,
forming stars. In time the lightened body will rise
to make tea and walk slippered among miracles.
Very, very nice.
Char
This poem really makes me think.
Exquisite!