From My Porch on a Summer Night

Bobbi Esmark

New Mexico wraps me

                            each shoulder slides into its embrace.

My legs are India's river

                            heavy with souls, lighted with fire.

My neck is the circle's center

                            the ocean's rising, the sound of Tanzania's birds.

Hawks sprawl within arms reach

                            their wings weave a homespun blanket 

Over my body. 

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Bobbi Esmark is a painter, printmaker and writer. She lives and has her studio in New York's Hudson Valley, where she also teaches Taiji and Qigong.

Among many things, she is grateful for Poetry Barn and poet, Kim Noriega.

Photo: ©Rachel Darke, 2020