How Divine
{An Umbrella Special Feature}


Penny Harter’s

most recent books are The Night Marsh (WordTech Editions, 2008), Along River Road (From Here Press, 2005), Lizard Light (Sherman Asher Books, 1998), and Buried in the Sky (La Alameda Press, 2002).

Her rhyming children’s alphabestiary, The Beastie Book, is forthcoming as a picture-book from Shenanigan Books.

For more information, please visit her web site.




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Meditation

I sit in the dusk,
folding pale hands together,
bones in my lap.

If I touch the light
a neighborhood of blood will shine
in the web between my fingers,
rosy in this room of fading sky.

My body leans toward the window,
toward dark clouds migrating
along the rust horizon;
toward the wind that rises
in black branches at the field’s edge,
carrying my breath into the hills.



 
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