From a Split Seed by Wendell Hawken (Poetry ’05)
Poetry alum Wendell Hawken has a new collection, From a Split Seed, out from Kelsay Books. Read an excerpt below.
Breathe
What exhale does to glass.
Little thoughts of quiet days–
returning robins, for instance,
tapping code, heads cocked to hear
earth’s answer.
Every river’s pointing finger.
The flat, webbed feet of platitude.
Belief’s seeds winnowed into fact
and myth tied to memory’s mast
sailing past the lies that bind.
