REBECCA PELKY

SAINT JULIAN PRESS POET

 

POEMS from — HORIZON OF THE DOG WOMAN

SPELL FOR NORTHERN GIRLS: TO MAKE SEA GLASS 


At ninety degrees, you can call the wind, 
but don’t let him speak; In this heat 
 
his voice carries too much weight, 
and your chest will grow thick with his words. 
 
Instead, let the gentle push of downhill lead you 
to water. On the shore, strip down and give 
 
your body to the white noise 
rhythm of her moonstruck heartbeat. 
 
With your knees leaving prints in her 
weathered sand, you can look her in the eye;
 
She does not demand your pride. 
On a calm day, she’ll let you have her 
 
like this, until she’s finished with you, until 
her tide shifts, and she pushes and pushes you
 
away. But if you leave her a gift, a shard 
of sharp green glass, she’ll burnish and caress it, 
 
and someday she’ll return it, worn 
to a jewel by her regard.
 







Rebecca Pelky © 2019

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Rebecca Pelky was raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, surrounded by Great Lakes. She is an enrolled member of the Brothertown Indian Nation of Wisconsin, and is of Mohegan and European descent. She began publishing poems later in life than some, after spending thirteen years as a zookeeper and wildlife dietician. Rebecca is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she is a Gus T. Ridgel Fellow.

​Visit her website at: rebeccapelky.com

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