Kenneth Salzmann Verse-Virtual 2018 April

April 2018

My recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in California Quarterly, Antiphon, Home Planet News Online, Poeming Pigeon, and elsewhere. I live and write in either Woodstock, New York, or Mexico, depending, and am currently polishing a book manuscript.

The poem I have yet to write

The poem I have yet to write
will arrive fully formed
except for one small truth
tucked into the smoky recesses
of the unexpected caesura
that waits for you somewhere
beyond the deep green pond
that cools the second stanza
and gives up rippling reflections
of an image we encountered
in the first in which a solitary
figure can be seen casting
cerulean sensibilities
across a meadow where
wildflowers and metaphors
bloom like approximations
of redemption or like tiny
epiphanies bursting into flame
among the spindle trees.