Judy Kronenfeld
If Only There Were Stations of the Air
by Judy Kronenfeld
ISBN: 978-1-962405-01-0
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Judy Kronenfeld’s sixth full-length book of poetry is If Only There Were Stations of the Air (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2024), and her third chapbook is Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements (Bamboo Dart, 2024). Her poems have appeared in such journals as Cider Press Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, New Ohio Review, One Art, Rattle, Sheila-Na-Gig, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Verdad. Judy has also published criticism, including King Lear and the Naked Truth (Duke, 1998), short stories, and creative nonfiction. Her memoir-in-essays-and-poems, Apartness, was published in early 2025 by Inlandia Books. She lives in Riverside, California, with her anthropologist husband.
Blue Journeys
He’s drifting away from me now,
like someone in a skiff whose oars
doze in their locks.
I’m still rowing, rowing, trying to keep him
in sight, holding on to the particulars
of the voyage so I can send the answers
to his perpetual questions on the wind.
Which child rebuilt their house? Which grandchild
started seventh grade? Or college?
What should I do now? What day is today?
I watch him watching now—
staring out at water ruffled by the breaths of air,
at the slow progression of ducks ruffling
the ruffles, moiré pattern crosscut
by moiré pattern.
I wish him sun-glow and breeze-stir,
I wish him infinity in the glitter
of water-lights as his boat slides
across the water’s mirror.
One of us rows, one drifts. Both of us
float towards the horizon we’ll slip over. . .
