Hive Ave Fall2024 - Flipbook - Page 10
Poetry
Hive Avenue Literary Journal
Great Lake
Matt Carmichael
sky—bruised slate
unburdened
by the weight of glaciers
kettled shore
clotted tributary
debris of a sea, spent
dead coral and mosquitos
the granite soft blood
of caribou
stream cut
cradled basin
wild rye, iron ore
erosion,
the sadness of late
summer cicadas
dune-smooth
limestone tomb
of petri昀椀ed shadow
young wind, cloaked
in emerald shipwreck
begging to the moon,
spilled across the surface
of the water, hungry,
howl
let it 昀椀ll
the urn,
carry it to the coyotes.
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