Taujna Thomson

t.m. thomson’s work has been featured in several journals, most recently in The Briar Cliff Review, and three of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards.   She has co-authored Frame and Mount the Sky (2017) and is the author of Strum and Lull (2019) and The Profusion (2019).  Her full-length collection, Plunge, has just been published and is available through UnCollected Press.

Tidal

Where land embraces water
beavers busy themselves weaving branch & grass    sealing holes with stones    cleaning out kits’ decayed bedding of sedge & fern & rushspreading mud with hands webbed like bat wings & a tail like orca’s tongue
cypress roots reach    bottle water    slow it as a mother cradles her quicksilverchild    cautions him against too muchtoo soon    crone finger roots furnish a nursery for wriggling salmon & trout with bellies of sunrise
girl stands as still as a humid afternoon while swamp stretches out in a peal of cloud-drenched surface    sharp cattail army    purple-eyed waterlilysandhill crane on undulating bank—cladin a grey shift & crimson cap his takeoff    leggy & trill-
glutted    stays with girl well intoold age    her mind brimmingrolling    gushing    synapses floodedsinuous    laced with dams of stick & moss& fish flashing silver    rising with those wings
to settle on hushed waters & sail    slowly    slowly    on lily pads linked like planets & sun stars & moontidal cosmos

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