Sandra Meek

Sandra Meek has published six books of poems, including Still, forthcoming from Persea in January 2020, An Ecology of Elsewhere, Road Scatter, and the Dorset Prize–winning Biogeography. Recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, the Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, three Georgia Author of the Year awards, and two Peace Corps Writers awards, she teaches at Berry College. Visit her at www.sandrameek.com.

Poetry – Issue 27

•Cold Comfort to Doom

No crops to sow. No shocks. No cobs, no corn’s
down floss. No cock’s crow. No storms

to grow. No cool to morn. No blood to spot; no flocks
of cotton bolls to lop. No flocks. . .

Poetry – Issue 16

Still Life with Paper Wasp Nest and Lava Flow

Paper chalice a wasp worries to the heart / of the patio junk-sculpture dog’s / metal pipe torso: Thurston’s lava tube / in miniature . . .

Poetry – Issue 16

Adansonia digitata (Baobab)

Weightless as the heart / that shelving dried to a fraction, your fruit’s chalky remains / fanned with copper threads . . . .

Poetry – Issue 9

•Acacia karroo Hayne (White Thorn)

Ivory monastery, you invite / retreat, your quills without ink, your needles / hollow