Starlight in Exile
the mother bone
great pelvic girdle
hammock hung from
the head of the heart
bone fulcrum
sway rocker
on its helical haunches
and in the dark
heart of the matter
a second beat rises
to its crescendo
a beat beat and a
breath a pump pump
and a slow dissolve in
to rainbow colored
code switching flesh
home gone from
the mother bone
the sheep’s head
the burrowing breath
of the birth nest
Peggy Dobreer is the innovator behind Slow Lightning Lit and author of two collections from Moon Tide Press: In the Lake of Your Bones and Drop & Dazzle, as well as one chapbook, Forbidden Plums: Poems in Quarantine. She has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize, was a semifinalist for the 2015 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, and was awarded Downey Symphony Orchestra’s 2017 Poetry Matter’s Prize. She was a Program Director at A.R.O.H.O. and is a Community of Writers Alum. Her poetry appears most recently in Pratik: Darkness in Style and the Aeolian Harp Folio Series, Vol. I and V. More information at www.peggydobreer.com.
