Cindy Savett
begun
I have begun
without
you again
beside your dark
regret
your cloak of shadows
I rise a morning
where you
sit
your
hollow winter bones
dull thud
I stitch your name through the night
silver thread across the mouth of each vowel
deception by a single
prayer
no earth in the grave
no fire
in my sleeping eyes
one untied branch
misted anchor
dull thud
for the frantic
Cindy Savett, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, lives in the Philadelphia area with her family. She teaches poetry workshops to psychiatric inpatients at Friends Hospital. Her poems have appeared in recent issues of LIT, Margie, The Marlboro Review, CutBank, 26 Magazine, and other journals.