Heather Hallberg Yanda

Heather Hallberg Yanda teaches in the English Department at Alfred University, in the hills of upstate New York. She has poems both published and forthcoming in such journals as Tar River Poetry, Bryant Literary Review, Panorama, and the Yale Journal of Medical Humanities. Ashland Poetry Press published her first collection, Late Summer's Origami, in 2020. She is looking for a home for her second collection, What the Stones Borrowed. She teaches in the English Department at Alfred University, in the hills of upstate New York. She has poems both published and forthcoming in such journals as Tar River Poetry, Bryant Literary Review, Panorama, and the Yale Journal of Medical Humanities. Ashland Poetry Press published her first collection, Late Summer's Origami, in 2020. She is looking for a home for her second collection, What the Stones Borrowed.

The Borrowed Kayak

After just minutesI'm in the midst of a newperspective: here in a borrowedkayak, afloat at the edgeof a reservoir I've passedso often I forgotits beauty: I saw onlytomorrow and uncertaintyinstead of cloud and imaginationor water and clarity.The boat carries meto the water's center: the bowslices the surfacewith the assuranceof a realization -- no matterhow fleeting it may be --between mysteryand knowledge, silenceand movement, betweengrief and understanding.

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