Riverspeaks
Kate Wallace Rogers I show her sides of fish she's never seen, the turquoise freckle of damselflies, lithe on my mossy banks. Her shadow trembles along my membrane like music, warm and chill by turns, sinuous as fear. She might scare off as dreams of lovers swim away. Yet she strides into my shallows, pauses at my breadth. In my current I reveal my every crag and whorl, the eddies of my beaten heart. She slips on a rockslick, her laughter spilling like light below my surface as she falls. I rush the seams of her yielding, swallow her surrender. |
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About the Author: Kate Wallace Rogers has been writing and performing poetry since second grade. She co-founded the Dragonfly Poetry and Music series in Dennis, MA and has been a featured reader in many Cape Cod venues. A member of the Workshop for Publishing Poets led by Barbara Helfgott-Hyett, her work has appeared in The Beaver, Red Weather, Forage, The Lost Tower Anthology, and The Wayfarer. Kate has also created a slim volume of poetry silk screened on Japanese folding paper. Originally from New York City, Kate currently lives in Provincetown, MA, where she cares for Stanley Kunitz' garden.