Lucia Galloway
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Terzanelle: Dry Arroyos
This is a climate of summer weather
where caked earth cracks and grasses scorch.
This is a sky where no clouds gather.
Morning sun invades the screened-in porch.
Shadows shrink, the frail shade quivers.
Where caked earth cracks and grasses scorch,
lizards scud along the dusty rivers,
our dry arroyos, the tumbled stones.
Shadows shrink, the frail shade quivers.
Long evenings’ cathedral light atones.
High noons glare, but supper-talk rebounds.
Our dry arroyos, the tumbled stones.
The heady darkness settles, interval that bounds
both dusk and dawn. Old women understand
high noons’ glare, but supper-talk rebounds.
Night finds its legs. Coyotes band.
This is a climate of summer weather,
both dusk and dawn. Old women understand
this is a sky where no clouds gather.
Bio
Lucia Galloway is the author of Venus and Other Losses (Plain View Press, 2010) and Playing Outside (Finishing Line, 2005) and is the recipient of several awards, including a Pushcart Nomination. Recent work appears in The Lyric, Poemeleon, Her Mark 2009, Redheaded Stepchild, Foundling Review, and Tilt-a-Whirl. Galloway co-hosts a poetry reading series in Claremont, California.