Wyman Poetry, aaduna in exile, spring 2021 issue, Vol. 10 No. 1

 

Meet the Poet

Sarah Wyman, Ph.D.

Sarah Wyman, Ph.D. writes and teaches on verbal/visual intersections in the Hudson Valley where climbing feet kick dust down to a river-sea.  Her poetry has appeared in aaduna, Mudfish, Ekphrasis, San Pedro River Review, Potomac Review, Petrichor Review, Heron Clan VII, Chronogram, and other venues. Her collection, Fried Goldfinch, is forthcoming at Codhill Press. Website: https://faculty.newpaltz.edu/sarahwyman/ 

Janet Kozachek  has led a long and eclectic career as a writer, poet, visual artist, teacher, and editor.  She wrote for Evening Reader Magazine, publishing essays on art and social issues, and her series of one hundred and thirteen small, square figurative paintings became the basis for a long poetry book manuscript, Moments in Light and Shadow, completed in 2017.  Select poems from this manuscript have been published in Undefined magazine and the poetry journal, Ekphrasis.   Her books and illustrations include The Book of Marvelous Cats, an illustrated book of rhymes for the cat, and My Women, My Monsters, an illustrated poetry chapbook. Janet’s A Rendering of Soliloquies will soon be published by  Finishing Line Press. 

"Falling Fossil, Rising Dancer"
Janet Kozachek, artist (c) 2021

Fossil

 

One more man hunted down, petrified

at the cobbled end of a milky, creek-lined street

and it seems we’ve all been set in stone.

Now thin strip prints of our former selves

the silhouette in crimson where the clay set

our gestures caught and hardened to a form

legible in the dim cave light

where tourists pass with torches

and the bats have flown.

 

What history stalks us day by day,

slice of the resistant finger, tracing fossils

like ciphers of our common past

etched on damp walls

where green pulls ochre to its red

and we could shatter what seems

permanent, retool the contours of shadowed bone

imaged through moss, brush-burst

by the rest of us, hurrying with our tools,

carrying signs and making a scene,

no longer caught in silty sludge

but at the edge of willing to make a change.

 

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