13 lines

 

 

13 lines

 

I dream of you, in your hands

scarlet birds with golden crowns.

Flocks of words take to the sky

abandon me.

Where is the body in such

grief?

Autumn, chaste bedroom

lone bed a book transforms.

At my feet

cold folded, quilted

into the space winter stakes.

 Cathedral silence. 

 All beauty stains, thin and cool as glass.

 

Julia Klatt Singer

 

Julia Klatt Singer is a poet and painter from Minneapolis, Minnesota.  She has four books of poetry, and her most recent work can be found at Autumn Sky Daily Poetry, The Saint Paul Almanac, and Silver Birch Press. She works at Grace Neighborhood Nursery School as their poet-in-residence.  Audio poems from her most recent book, Elemental (Prolific Press) Poems written to the periodic table can be found at OpenKim.org, where she is the elemental, Sp, the element of surprise.