Tricia Knoll
Marbled Paper
Current news presents slippery-sliding.
I’m trudging up a sand slope that pulls downwards
as if the round top of a dune is an impossible goal
or like endpapers in antique books, watercolor
pigments mixed with ox gall and dripped in eyedrops
to float until raked as a stir of truth on paper.
Now fly-bys of Ultima Thule, quick reversals
and bomb cyclones, hailstorms, anti-cyclones,
swirls in motion for use as wallpaper, screen-savers.
Tricia Knoll is a Vermont poet who lives deep enough in a woods that for moments she escapes what is happening. And every day those moments seem shorter. Her recent collection of poetry How I Learned To Be White received the Gold Prize for Poetry Book Category for Motivational Poetry in the Human Relations Indie Book Prize for 2018. For more poetry, visit triciaknoll.com.
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