Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – Beyond Love
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Beyond Love’ by Emma Bolden. She is the author of three poetry collections, House Is an Enigma (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Cowles Poetry Book Prize; medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 2016); and Maleficae (GenPop Books, 2013). Bolden is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors, and serves as the associate editor-in-chief at Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
I have matched artwork by @remnants_captured with this image entitled ‘A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds’. You can view her Instagram feed here.
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Beyond Love – Emma Bolden
If the saints are to be believed, if this body is a dress
we slip into, out of, if each day and night is the mantle
we tie around our shoulders, fabric thin as the time it takes
teeth to flatten the end of a thread and lead it through
an eyed needle, then what am I to make of the gorgeous
terror every star makes out of its own distance? Sometimes
I can see the body as a blaze, bright-gloried, flamed
and holy as a pin-prick the size of a soul. And if the soul
is a blaze to be believed, then belief blazes a highway
to some beyond, a beauty that begins with every ordinary
sweetness, every one small but still indefinable love.
Every morning, when I wash the wrongs I’ve made right
out of my hair, I want to believe in each drop of water
as a promise of and from the all that we’re meant to contain.
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