Sarah Burgoyne : WHAT IS LOST CANNOT BE HAD

 

dew is her ornament

on the spider web

it descends

at a slow galactic pace

like this,

             the web is time's magnet

where all small planets alight

  quietly

like a thousand years

slinging thin lines

into heavy pearl curves

each year is an eye

the eye of the sea

finally looking back

now

          to say

as you do

                     when you look

many-eyed, and as close:

yes, i am the prince of grass.

Sarah Burgoyne's first collection Saint Twin (Mansfield: 2016) was nominated for the A.M. Klein prize. Her next book is coming out with Coach House Press in 2021.