| Re-evaluation after an Ordinary Miracle by Nancy A. Henry | ||
In my superstitious and indulgent prayers you have always been a rageful lover or a fearsome king but what if it is I who've been unfair? Maybe you were always the afternoon light slanting through the blinds the green leather of camellia pressed against the windowpanes in summer storm. Do you sully yourself, after all, in disorderly explosions of wildflowers and weeds, slip into flesh through the woman even now laying the dark lilies of her sorrows at the feet of her priest? Would you even sit with me, cross-legged, untangling my sad business, humming softly to yourself, walk in ordinary shoes up to my kitchen door, without exploding my house to matchsticks, and like a neighbor, simply knock? Nancy A. Henry's poems have appeared in Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review, Atlanta Review, The Hollins Critic, GSU Review, Gathering of the Tribes, Creosote, Raintown Review and Poetrybay, among many others. Her chapbook, Anything Can Happen, was published last year by MuscleHead Press. She's also an associate editor of the literary journal Café Review, and teaches English at Southern Maine Technical College.
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