She
Loves How Her
mind
works
how
her attention swoops and swims
through
all that lives
how
she bares all its secrets
along
with all of hers
the
way she summons language to this service
uncannily
as Snow White
leaving
the dusting and bedmaking
to
the birds and squirrels
—by
Dan Carpenter
Bio:
Dan Carpenter
is an Indianapolis freelance journalist, poet, fiction writer and
blogger. He has published poems in Flying Island, Poetry East,
Illuminations, Pearl and other journals, along with two books of
poems, The Art He’d Sell for
Love
(Cherry Grove, 2015) and More
Than I Could See
(Restoration Press, 2009).