Poetry 1 min

Ritual

Kelleen Zubick

Kelleen Zubick’s poetry has appeared in a number of journals including, Agni Online, Barrow Street, december, and Dogwood. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and she lives with her family in Denver and directs health strategies for the national No Kid Hungry campaign.

It must have been the circumscribed

aspect of the sunlight—

approachable, laid out in distortion

from the window on the pile,

the creamy den rug, a possibility

of just now, of squeezing in—

that led to such solitary extravagance:

bathing in a patch of sun,

a practice that starts

on the shadowed edge: swift lift of shirt

and shirk of anything under,

the maille of colder air roughing skin,

then stepping in—not testing

but outstretched, tall, full-measure

then sinking, knees to chest, soaking

in temporary wonderment

where she can weave her hands

through the motey air, lean

back and let the dazzling

countenance wash her hair.

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