Breath & Shadow
Winter 2021 - Vol. 18, Issue 1
"Rituals of Breath"
written by
Eve Rifkah
The geese sawtooth south
and I and I and I
here
no wing-ticket out
the sage green walls of my room
lay back and close in
hard fields confine
this interment of the soul
wrap me in a shroud of winter white
ghost dance to spring
awakening quiver
walk in vernal damp mist
marsh marigold, bloodroot
little joys
wings unfurl with heat
escape outwards in sun
brilliant opening
seasons revolve
a sigh of time.
Eve Rifkah was co-founder of Poetry Oasis, Inc. (1998-2012), a non-profit poetry association dedicated to education and promoting local poets. Founder, editor of DINER, a literary magazine with a 7-year run. She is author of “Dear Suzanne” (WordTech Communications, 2010) and “Outcasts the Penikese Leper Hospital 1905-1921” (Little Pear Press, 2010). Chapbook “Scar Tissue”, (Finishing Line Press, 2017), “At the Leprosarium” 2003 winner of the Revelever Chapbook Contest.