Culled from May: red

BY Rusty Morrison

What sickness hears without sense or awareness,

my body sounds. Cliff face

glowing red with sunset’s end, but cold to touch in a hour.

Certain innate calibrations of symptoms will soothe senses

away from their work of recognition. Even as the act of observation itself

breaks up,

which might only appear to be

clouds dispersing,

and then the sky, too, behind the clouds, drawn to participate in the volatility

of vanishment.

 

Biography

RUSTY MORRISON is the author of the forthcoming title, After Urgency (winner of Dorset Prize, Tupelo, 2012); Book of the Given (Noemi Press, 2011); the true keeps calm biding its story (2008), winner of the Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award, the Northern California Book Award, Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize, and the DiCastagnola Award from Poetry Society of America; as well as Whethering (2004), which won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Bomb, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, New American Writing, Pleiades, poets.org, Poem-A-Day, Verse, VOLT, and the essay anthologies One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe (Sarabande, 2010) and Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Punto Press, 2011). She is the co-publisher of Omnidawn Publishing.

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