This selection, chosen by Managing Editor Krista Cox, is from Being Many Seeds by Marilyn McCabe, released by Grayson Books in 2020.
You are moving toward faster things
as evening blows papers around your step,
the hum of sidewalks pale and pocked;
you remove your hat with flourish at the red light.
You have told your stories,
striding corridors of skyscrapers, which reach
farther from you and you walk faster
following the breeze. Horns blow, echo
clank of subway cover over
and over. You are turning, step assured, kicking
aside the breeze. Ah, you are
finished business, in no need of direction,
but still not
faster than the night.
::
evening blows
your hat with
stories
which
echo
over
and over
you are
in need of
the night
::
you are
the night
Teilhard was born in the Auvergne, a sparsely populated area of ancient volcanoes, wild valleys, werewolf tales, and old languages. One could believe almost anything there.
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.
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