Sharon Tracey

Bio: Sharon Tracey's poems have appeared in The Worcester Review, Mom Egg Review, Tule Review, Common Ground Review, and elsewhere. Her full-length poetry collections include Chroma (Shanti Arts, 2020) and What I Remember Most Is Everything (All Caps Publishing, 2017).

Walk in the Driving Rain

Mud is the medicine these days it seemsthe rain won’t leave us well enough alone,and its sharp drops have now congealed to fillan open tomb with lake. No measured dose,it smells like death and so you grieve, pull onyour boots, and take the only path you knowacross the tracks to reach beyond the curve,and there it sits above the ooze, makeshiftbridge without a name, with footholds and awooden rail to grasp above the drowningworld. Listen. Can you hear the beavers splash-slap as they work, stripping bark for spare partsto build a dome above their water door,spackling mud to protect the womb, to warm.

After Hopper

There was something I could never name, a gauze, a permeated pause caught between comfort and alert. A wave curled between beach grass and the empty porch. Afternoon amber, Cape Cod reflection.A trace of gold threaded the windows. House with two chimneys for blowing smoke and mirrors. A grand dame on her own glassy hill. She shivered in a skirt of curtains,accepted the cold kiss of the sun.A cloud passed. What is out of reach? I stood alone and felt the ocean.
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