“The Art of Juggling,” by Dinah Berland (Poetry ’95)

Fugue for a New Life, a chapbook by Dinah Berland, recently won the WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poem “The Art of Juggling,” excerpted below, also appeared in Crosswinds Poetry Journal V.

The Art of Juggling

It doesn’t take long to master, like conjugating 
the verb to be—soy, eres, es, somos, son. Pretty soon
you don’t even have to think about it—the balls 

rise and fall of their own accord. Did you see how
the full moon sank into a bank of clouds this morning?

You can read the rest of this poem in Berland’s chapbook.