Jay Sheets

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[i drop a rosary of seeds]

i drop a rosary of seeds

i catch a tiny fish

i dig through pearled belly

i pillage the bones

i place flesh on unbloodied stone

i drink the light of a cold blue star

i set my wings aflame

i know my blood

there is no sin here it's long gone

it has yet to be written

i cut my name on seashells

white with flowery throats

i sing from where all good things sleep

i eclipse skylike & drink my stones

did the moon ever look at our

blue-quartz eden & wonder

Jay Sheets studies creative writing at Goddard College and is a former poetry editor for the literary journal, Duende. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hermeneutic Chaos, Aleola, Sundog Lit, Albion Review, The Light Ekphrastic, Enclave, Entropy, The Legendary, Apricity, and The Poets' Touchstone. He recently won the 2016 Poetry Society of New Hampshire Poetry Contest. Sheets is a member of the Academy of American Poets and lives in Brooklyn, New York.