Baker’s Pick
Sandra Fees
Photo Credit: mollybob
When sand is so hot on the feet
you forget how to walk
and when prayer is the shape
of a teacup
Because the young woman tells her boyfriend:
negative space is cool
and because the room is too big
and the world too small
After you drink holy water
in the Narayan temple
and sacrifice what was
for what is
Then everywhere is a tree
wanting to be climbed
and everywhere arms press
into sleeves of air.
Sandra Fees is a poet and minister. She studied creative writing at Syracuse University in the 1980s and was editor of the Harrisburg Review from 1994-2001. She’s an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and lives in Reading, Pennsylvania. Email: sandrarfees[at]gmail.com