Mark McKain
Summer 2025 | Poetry
With
a restless wish to praise whatever
emerges and becomes a body, an excess,
a spark, a wrinkled snout, a mistake.
With the dragon’s teeth you, like Cadmus,
carefully sow in the soft earth,
layered and folded, you the well-bedded
survivor of fault and rift,
waiting for a song from that silent
yellow-throated warbler—window strike—
waiting for a word that chooses you, thankful
none of your thoughts
ever need be finished—
Michele Worthington lives in Tucson, AZ where the Sonoran Desert, urban sprawl and our unacknowledged apocalypse prompt her writing. Her photography and poetry have appeared in several online journals. She was an Arizona Matsuri contest winner and a finalist for the 2023 Tucson Festival of Books literary awards.