NINA BUCKLESS
Le Réveil
When the one who says peace is possible
and the one who says peace is impossible
meet behind the shadow of earth
on the field of the birds of time
below the lake of dreams
where time exists
as the shade of a curved bell
that mourns the sound of its own swing
a second of stars that cries out
on the tides of nightingales
asleep on the backs of bears
tossed to the echoes of glacial light
when dust no longer has shadows
to drink from or give birth to
and when everything moves
backwards and forwards in wake
of a new tune, yes, when the dance rises
and when everything and nothing
settle into slumber together
is when something has come
that is bigger than you or I.
Nina Buckless is a fiction writer and poet. Poetry or prose have appeared in Santa Monica Re-view, Tin House, Unsaid, Georgetown Review, Absent, Burrow Press Review, Midwestern Gothic, Big Muddy Review, Turkish Literature and Art, The Wayne Literary Review, Poémame, and other places. Her short story “Deer’\” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her poetry has been published and translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Turkish. She is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers Program and the recipient of a Zell Fellowship. Nina is a veteran of Jim Krusoe’s creative writing workshop in Los Angeles as well as a member of the Poetry Club at Washtenaw Community College. She received two scholarships to attend Community of Writers Workshops for fiction in Squaw Valley, California. Currently, she is working on a new novel, Cave of Idols, a story told in prose and poetry.
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