Pines' outline clouded in fog
mirrors memory that’s losing
its edges, colors, its thoroughfares
are shedding their data
Facts fall brittle through space
What remains looks to be
solid, but its hollow pride
can’t even recall when it last
caught and kissed the moon
Nancy K. Jentsch’s chapbook Authorized Visitors (Cherry Grove Collections) and the collaborative chapbook Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press), in which her poetry appears, were published in 2017. Since 2008, when she began writing, her work has appeared in both online and print journals, such as Amethyst Review, Eclectica, Panoply, Tiferet Journal, and Zingara Poetry Review and also in numerous anthologies. In 2020 she received an Arts Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She has retired after 37 years of teaching at Northern Kentucky University and finds a bounty of inspiration for her writing in her family and her rural home.
Featured image by benuski “Lake Guntersville” (filers applied) CC BY 2.0
