now it’s hot
our stink mud
sinking green
our flybelly flick
our wet plash wed
to spring
rattle the low places
bulrush deep
steep the folk
marsh
where the oaks part
sing each roundness
as it surfaces
thickly
cream-into-air
blackblossom prayer
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 26, Issue 3.
Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of four poetry collections: Foxlogic, Fireweed (Backwaters Press/Univ. of Nebraska), Little Spells, How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. The collaborative chapbook, Dear Question, with L.I. Henley, will be published in 2024 from Glass Lyre Press. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared widely in journals, most recently or forthcoming in Birdcoat Quarterly, Guesthouse, On the Seawall, Orion, Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, Terrain, Waxwing.
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