Jay Sheets
[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
Bio
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.