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Sonnet
She goes, she is, she wakes the
waters
primed in their wave-form, a flux of urge
struck into oneness, the solid surge
seeking completion, and strikes and shatters
and is its fragments, distinction’s daughters—
and now, unholding, the cleave and merge
the hew and fusing, plundering the verge
and substance is the scheme it scatters
and what it numbers in substantial sun.
Her hands hold many or her hands hold none.
And diving the salt will kiss a convex eye
and be salt fact and be the bodied sky
and that gray weight is both or beggared one,
a dead dimensional, or blue begun.
—Karen
Volkman
Karen Volkman's
books of poetry are Crash's Law and Spar. She
teaches in the MFA program at the University of Montana.
Originally published in the September/October 2005
issue of Boston Review
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