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Jan/Feb 2018 Poetry Special Feature

deceptive calm

by Nancy Jentsch

Artwork by Bianca Artopé

Artwork by Bianca Artopé



deceptive calm

(artwork by Bianca Artopé, 2017)

concrete barriers
sliver moonlight
rise silent
above truce
balanced in stags'
jealous antlers
shadows risk
shattering on slick
sidewalk
unwelcome portents
haunt pathway's
silver-lit bend

once clouds vanish moon
darkness deflates deception

 

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