Issue 7 - Lauren Camp

Fiesta, Santa Fe

The Dailiness

"...you cup your hands / And gulp from them the dailiness of life."
                                                 --Randall Jarrell

            Taos, May 2011

An arc of dusk climbs the back of twilight. We watch

a spliced horizon.

           

Across from Ft. Burgwin, Taos

Kim focuses his binoculars on a cloud. Night pours by

                        in orbit.

           

                        June 4,  2:12 PM

Tea or grass? she asks when I arrive: twisted, tense.

            Welcome to share leaves from her drawer.

           

            Hyde Park, New Mexico Foothills

We hunt paths down the mountain. Spread streets with tires,

                        drive until sun drapes on clouds.

            Marfa, TX

Through holes, the dense drone of light.

All intersections and space. Boxes.

            Northern New Mexico, Tuesday, August 9, 2011, 3:31 PM

I hide from stitches of sun – dry and long.

Our mountain continues standing still.

                                    October 8, La Cienega bedroom

Yesterday I didn’t tell you no.

                                                I opened wider in the dusk.

            Whole Foods, Oct. 8

A woman

keeps sticking her hands in the bulk bin: all crystal ginger.

--Lauren Camp

Featured Poet, Lauren Camp is the author of the poetry collection, This Business of Wisdom (West End Press), and is the host/producer of “Audio Saucepan,” a weekly music/poetry show on KSFR-FM. She is also a visual artist. Lauren blogs about poetry and its intersections with art and music at Which Silk Shirt. She lives in a rural farming village near Santa Fe. www.laurencamp.com

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