Sandra Marchetti
Summer 2025 | Poetry
Two Poems
Quarry
I remember I looked
into the water—a marbled
green fog—and sensed
the black strip’s shadow,
no flags above.
I learned to breathe
50 meters at a clip
and what returns is
myself pulling up
arc-swift from a dive,
the first time I rose
through the wet lens
out of clouds and into
blue, bubbling up toward
the surface from oblivion.
Lake
After going almost
a year without,
I imagine it resembled
a cop drama
when I left the car
door ajar, pinging
in the distance,
and walked in
dedication toward
the shoreline.
Sandra Marchetti is the 2023 winner of The Twin Bill Book Prize for Best Baseball Poetry Book of the Year. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, DIORAMA, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2025), Aisle 228 (SFA Press, 2023), and Confluence (Sundress Publications, 2015). Sandy is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Her poetry and essays appear widely in Mid-American Review, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. She is Poetry Editor Emerita at River Styx Magazine. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Support at Harper College in Chicagoland. You can find out more at: https://sandramarchetti.net/