J.I. Kleinberg
Multiple nominee for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards, J.I. Kleinberg is an artist, poet, and freelance writer. Her poetry has appeared in December, One, Diagram, Otoliths, Pedestal, Psaltery & Lyre, and many other print and online journals worldwide. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and online at chocolateisaverb.wordpress.com.Diagram
The song is a diagram of longing
plucked from the air.
The air is a wing of possibility
stitched from shadow.
The shadow is a gown of night
sewn from the flesh of stars.
The stars peel uneasily
from the watercolors of dawn.
The dawn lays itself across
the rumpled quilt of farmland.
The farmland yields its stones
to plow and hand.
The hand sets stone
upon stone in a wall.
The wall is between us
but it cannot stop the song.
