Gayle Elen Harvey
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is not all.
Rain begins falling like a stray
thought.
It is everywhere
at once.
Without prayer, without
pause,
there is hunger for the dark side,
a colder
time.
Boundaries
shift.
Small boats remain deeply
grounded.
Thin with static,
the sky
collapses, dropping easily through
the burnt-out
trees,
or is it morning,
now,
at the edges where birds
startle?
Gayle Elen Harvey has published poems in The American Poetry Journal, The New York Quarterly, Plainsong, and The Louisiana Review, among many others. She has published eight collections of poetry, the latest of which is Vanishing Points (2009). Notable awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, The Poetry Society of America’s Emily Dickinson Award, and The Kennesaw Review’s Don Russ Poetry Prize. She lives and writes in Upstate New York.