II: A Sonnet for Cumberland MD#
Bay silt in city stone through time accrues
along the western course of concrete flow
that sweeps from plain to sky in upward spews
as grey-white spray arcs over wave to snow
from heights on high and splash on mountain spine
where valleyed pools in rising drink their fill
and shoot with sprouts through shoulders made of pine
the roofs that empty crowds on streets and spill
through hand to hand the layers stacked from base
to wedded brick til building lillies bred
against the westward wall in flood’s embrace
where lips at last are wet in watershed;
Let skyline mark where tide in climb was broke:
The steepled roof, the needled pine through oak.
March 2025
Date |
Publication |
Status |
|---|---|---|
March 24, 2025 |
Allegany County Library Poetry Contest |
Rejected |
March 27, 2025 |
Poetry Magazine |
Pending |
May 10, 2025 |
North Appalachia Review |
Pending |
June 1, 2025 |
The Louisville Review |
Pending |
June 22, 2025 |
Backbone Mountain Review |
Pending |