© 2011 by Patricia Thrushart
Heavy she lies
and languid
above the restless palms
full with round fecundity
succor of the night
Luxuriant and glowing
in golden stolen light
preening in her passage
through clouds of silken white
Beneath her heavy body
the sea stirs and responds
earth’s bulging rock strains upward
desirous and blind
Patricia Thrushart lives in western Pennsylvania with her two children. Her liberal arts and master’s degree in public management inform her writing far more than her work as an executive for a large bank. Her photo of Loyalhanna Creek is on page 11.
