Bio
Diane Jackman's work has appeared in Rialto, Happenstance, Snakeskin, small press magazines and many anthologies. Starting out as a children's writer with seven books and more than 100 stories published, she now concentrates on poetry and short stories. She is passionately interested in Anglo-Saxon literature and medieval rabbit warrens.
Diane Jackman
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The Stars Look Down — sculpture by Bob Quinn
Beneath her cradling palm
the child shifts in his closed cave.
In the beat of her blood
he feels the music of the stars;
the wheeling sky for now
transmuted from his mother's eye
to the slow pulse of her heart
across the binding cord.
Soon
he will hear the stars sing for himself.