Ethereal
Winter's crack shatters
empty mouthfuls;
lips cleave chest,
damp, cold light
sewn yesterday
placing constellations,
charting magnetic sunlight
as clouds become forest.
Storm speaks, recovers latitude
recovers names
defied through mesosphere,
through time, through
slipping fingers
against naked stars:
celestial me.
~
Loralee Clark has two chapbooks forthcoming: A Harmony in the Key of Trees: A Healing Myth (Dancing Girl Press, 2025) and Neolithic Imaginings: Mythical Explorations of the Unknown (Kelsay Press, 2026). Her first chapbook is Solemnity Rites (Prolific Pulse Press, 2025) and her second is Delighting in "To Be": Poems for Writers (Bottlecap Press, 2025). Clark has been nominated for two 2026 Pushcart Prizes. She resides in Virginia; her website is sites.google.com/view/loraleeclark. Her Substack, which focuses on the process of creativity, is nosuchthingasfailure.substack.com.
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