Lois Marie Harrod

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Dervish

The earth
on her slow axis
wobbles and dips,
and the moon-swirled sea
rounds dark into deep.
I twist my thread
through wake's needle,
tardy as the child
turning in the womb.
How else imagine
the slow eddy
that curves this
into then?

Lois Marie Harrod's chapbook Furniture won the 2008 Grayson Press Poetry Prize. Previous publications include the chapbook Firmament (2007); the chapbook Put Your Sorry Side Out (2005); Spelling the World Backward (2000); the chapbook This Is a Story You Already Know (l999); Part of the Deeper Sea (1997); the chapbook Green Snake Riding (l994), Crazy Alice (l991) Every Twinge a Verdict (l987). She won her third poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts in 2003. Over 350 of her poems have appeared in journals including American Poetry Review, Blueline, The MacGuffin, Salt, The Literary Review, Zone3. Seven-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize, she teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey.