From time to time we intend to publish poetry from guests. My first guest is Sandra Soli, from Edmond, Oklahoma, whose 2007 book WHAT TREES KNOW, received the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry. Her two entries follow:

Implications of Hawk

A certainty of rabbits
makes him fly.

He claims the wind
for himself.

None of us are innocent.

 

 

Saturday in the Wichitas

A rock not climbed before
waits for my boot
pendent with implication

secret as water
from the body or ferns
touching skin to skin.

The rock names me:
Look. Daylights they test
the music of stones,
reading these places we save.