The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Being Many Seeds by Marilyn McCabe

This selection, chosen by Managing Editor Krista Cox, is from Being Many Seeds by Marilyn McCabe, released by Grayson Books in 2020.

A young man in black pedals a black bike holds
a black umbrella light rain plunks everything
greening around him and pink
magnolia lets loose a petal high
crow transects his route the pedaler
glimpsing it all upside down in puddle
even as he rolls away

::

   young
                              light 
greening 


                                                    in puddle
                    rolls away

::

                              light 
greening 


                                                    
                             away

Teilhard believed that a system cannot be understood outside of time: all things are in process; nothing is static. We each are systems in the process of becoming, even as we are part of a large system which is also unfolding.

Marilyn McCabe‘s poetry has won awards and contests through A Room of Her Own Foundation, The Word Works, Grayson Books, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. Her books of poems include Perpetual Motion and Glass Factory, and chapbooks Rugged Means of Grace and, most recently, Being Many Seeds. Poems and videopoetry have been published in print and online, and videopoems have appeared in festivals and galleries.