After Carl Philips
deep in these
muddy fields deep where
the wind can’t reach
where shadow-like shade
like the sun touches only
the underside of things
I think of what used to
be called the soul there
must be a way, we thought
to suggest grace a way
to return to some
thing approaching
the immaculate but it is
only under this light
that we can believe
in such things
Ann Pedone graduated from Bard College with a degree in English and has a Master’s Degree in Chinese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley. Ann is the author of the chapbook The Bird Happened, and the forthcoming chapbook perhaps there is a sky we don’t know: a re-imagining of sappho. Her work has recently appeared in Riggwelter, Ethel Zine, Main Street Rag, Poet head, The Wax Paper, The Phare, West Trade Review, The Open Page Literary Journal, and Slipstream, among others.