Sunday, June 25, 2023 Two Short Poems from The Beautiful Transport by Theresa Wyatt
You are the orchid petal
glowing transparent
under the sheets…
drifting…
Footsteps doubled by
a thunder loud – doctors
rush toward your bed.
Unlike Geronimo,
they cannot hold off
the dawn.
Morning comes,
blazing its sweet vermilion
into the sunrise.
*
MESSAGING
High winds rattle fence boards loose,
the sound no longer faint like August.
And birds? The birds have all
taken the train.
Yet you stay and come to me
as draft through windows – or
the singular knocking branch.
Sleeping, you rest inside
thin clouds, losing hair
I find on sweaters.
What of this day and night?
My heart’s blown open – cleared
for any agent or channel – however
you wish to reach me now.
About the Poet
Theresa Wyatt is a Buffalo area-based poet, visual artist, and retired educator. She is the author of the new collection “The Beautiful Transport” (Moonstone Press, 2023), a finalist in the Moonstone Chapbook Competition in 2022, and “Hurled into Gettysburg” (BlazeVOX Books, 2018), a collection of poems inspired by the 1863 Civil War battle, and as well as the chapbook “Arrowheads Everywhere” (Derby by the Lake Project, 2016). Her work has appeared in New Flash Fiction Review, Spillway, Snapdragon, steel bellow, The Ekphrastic Review, The Healing Muse, The Phare, W.W. Norton’s New Micro, and elsewhere. She credits her artistic parents, participation in the Siena, Italy Program during college, and teaching in the NYS prison system and abroad – as the major influences on her life.
Flatt was named by J. Michael Martinez to the Poetry Society of America’s list of New American Poets in 2013. He is the founder of Low Frequency Press, which publishes book-like objects of marginal aesthetics, and Threadsuns, a teaching press at High Point University, where he is an assistant professor of English.
Related Event
- Theresa Wyatt’s will be reading from her new collection “The Beautiful Transport” at a book launch event at 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 6th at The Meeting House, 5658 Main Street in Williamsville.
The “Poem of the Week” feature is curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.