Marjorie Stelmach is the author of three books of poems, most recently Bent Upon Light (Tampa, 2009). She served, until her recent retirement, as the director of the Howard Nemerov Writing Scholars Program at Washington University in St. Louis.
Orpheus. Descending.
Winter 1996
Sacred Waters
The sun has only a short way to fall behind the Italian Alps, but full dark is a long time coming. These endless evenings draw the ill and elderly out […]
Orpheus. Descending.
Winter 1996
This Third Light
Skin of green-black glint, mosaic wings: this housefly, old beyond hope or exhausted from how many stabs at the glass, performs slow death on my sill in a stumble of […]
Spring 2012
Dust; Interior Shot
Dust
Inquire of the dust its component parts.
beauty, brevity, blur.
Ask why the light can so easily lift it.
hearts’ chambers, the torn
legs of arachnids, broken bits of cricket wings . . .