Come Life
Anne Marie Macari
A grain of sand in my womb
rubbed and grew in me, pearl
of hair and bone, inkling
of spine Like a swollen moon
I phased, I phased till full,
till a child revealed himself
outside the diamond hold
Come life, closer, through
the orchard zone, from rooms
of otherness from wider
wide than wide Jellied
seeds in corners, odors
of the void, enter when
our backs are turned
nesting in our blood
Anne Marie Macari is the author of four books of poetry including Red Deer (Persea, 2015), She Heads Into the Wilderness (Autumn House, 2008), and Gloryland (Alice James, 2005). Her first book, Ivory Cradle, was chosen by Robert Creeley for the APR/Honickman first book prize. Macari’s poetry and prose have been widely published in magazines such as The Iowa Review, The American Poetry Review, and Field. She teaches in the Drew University MFA Program.