The Arousal of Spring
by Karla Linn Merrifield
Such a force
like gravity the moon’s
firm embrace
like Beaufort Six winds stiff
quick to stir me
like a wild gyre pacific
a joyful grip
like the barred owl her scream
laughter mating calls to my heart
fool, old fool, don’t do it, don’t do it
I hear at first but
learn
she sings my need
to life
so I do
A Pushcart Prize nominee and 2009 Everglades National Park Artist-in-Residence, Karla Linn Merrifield has had poetry appear in publications such as CALYX, Earth’s Daughters, Poetica, The Kerf, Negative Capability, Paper Street, and Blueline; online in The Centrifugal Eye, Terrain.org, Elsewhere: A Journal of the Literature of Place, and Elegant Thorn Review, and in several anthologies. In 2006, she edited THE DIRE ELEGIES: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America, from FootHills Publishing; in 2007, FootHills issued her Godwit: Poems of Canada. She is poetry editor of Sea Stories and poetry book reviewer for The Centrifugal Eye. She teaches writing part-time at SUNY College at Brockport.
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