Shannon Tharp
Impalpable
One’s
need
these
closed-
in days
to say
the sky’s
diluted
by clouds.
Orchard
A god-
thought
field
where
even
rain
loses
heart
when
shadows’
shadows
fall
as they
ought.
Statue
A swan
approaches
your shadow
cast over
snow roses
lodged
in limestone.
for Lena
Shannon Tharp grew up in Wyoming and lives in Seattle. Her second chapbook, Determined by Aperture, is forthcoming from Fewer & Further Press in late 2007.