Now this apterous anomaly
short of the queendom
antennae in anguish
of her intoxicating
attar. No chitin tissue
tissue thin, no down
beat to set thrum to path.
Null the sacred navels— adrift—
Oh, abysmal wobble
oh, distant kaleidoscopic
dreams— oh, the one
turn of his prismatic moon.
Kathryn Knight Sonntag is the author of The Mother Tree: Discovering the Love and Wisdom of Our Divine Mother (Faith Matters Publishing, 2022) and The Tree at the Center (BCC Press, 2019). Her most recent poems appear in Colorado Review, Rock & Sling, Dialogue, and Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild (Torrey House Press, 2021). She holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture and environmental planning, and works as a landscape architect and freelance writer in Salt Lake City. kathrynknightsonntag.com
