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Field Work

It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!


Her mind a passerine
claws firm on the bough

her body a flowering
tree She knows

what’s blooming
A luminist

she sees light
fall into woods

waft over
the undergrowth

A numinist
she reflects

the weave of seen
and unseen

What’s in her fieldbox

A spectrum spirit tin
spyglass spirals

a mud-splattered
map of the air



“Field Work” appears in Katrinka Moore’s latest book, Diminuendo (Pelekinesis, 2022). Recent work appears in Terrain.org, Cold Mountain Review, Hole in the Head re:View, Wild Roof Journal, Half Mystic, Feral, Gyroscope, Barzakh, TheNewVerse.News, and Exposition Review. With her mentee in the PEN American Prison Writing Program, Moore was awarded the L’Engel-Rahman Prize for Mentorship. See katrinkamoore.com.

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