Claudia M. Stanek
Grace
is the awl
making holes in the space
between infinity
and nothingness— mercy
its matching hammer tap—
and I long for those tools
in the stillness of my being.
Bio
Claudia M. Stanek's work has been turned into a libretto, has been part of an art exhibition, and has been translated into Polish. Her poems have been published in her chapbooks Beneath Occluded Shine and Language You Refuse to Learn as well as in Susurrus, The Windhover, Cutleaf, Ekstasis, Solum, and Book of Matches, among others. She holds an MFA from Bennington College. Claudia resides in East Tennessee.