Semblance
Easter’s
pale pink, green, lilac, blue:
I mute you. I will not sing across
hay-thatched grass as the songbirds do.
I see
in the hue of a winter not yet
gone. The sun slips from stripped
trees and between the irises
Glück does not remember
daffodils, gentle in their clusters,
clutching at the yellows of their throats.
A couple playing catch slides
from view; still the diorama
assembles, the scene runs true.
Sandra Marchetti is the author of Confluence, a full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays, including Sight Lines (Speaking of Marvels Press, 2016), Heart Radicals (ELJ Publications, 2016), A Detail in the Landscape (Eating Dog Press, 2014), and The Canopy (MWC Press, 2012). Sandra’s poetry appears widely in Poet Lore, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, River Styx, and elsewhere. Her essays can be found at The Rumpus, Whiskey Island, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, Pleiades, and other venues. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the College of DuPage in the Chicagoland area.
