“Matter,” by Jeneva Stone (Poetry ’07)

“Matter,” a poem by 2007 graduate Jeneva Stone, was recently featured in Literary Mama. Read an excerpt below:

Matter

Whatever takes up space and has mass

    A wedge-shaped core of darkness

A footprint on my skin, pressed from within

    Now and again we rise to the surface

Suspended by slip-shift of wet particulate

    Our apparitions, the things you know us by

Once at night beside the lake, an amniotic sea

    Beneath all is dark, spreading, unfathomably deep

Read the poem in its entirety here: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2020/07/matter