She became embankments
they would climb humid fields under skirt
curved knoll blond, modest grasses
a revetment upraised and wind clipped
the hindermost parts their shin prints
stipple the rosy peats and contours five kings on a finger
resurrect her arable lands but this hunting
her quick hills to sinner’s heaven
unmourns how it closes towns, species of men
under September’s brown eye
autumn’s leafed enclosure her sloping parable
raises their chapels herdsmen’s pay for pew of clover
there is no other praying here
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Tisha Nemeth-Loomis is completing an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College, Chicago. Her poems are published in Peralta Press, Plum Ruby Review, Rivers Edge (University of Texas, Edinburg), Pacific Review (San Diego State University), HazMat Review, and variously online. Her cultural and social criticism “Kafka, Corsets and Beautiful Scars” was awarded Best Arts and Entertainment article of 2005 by The Society of Professional Journalists, Cleveland Chapter. She teaches first-year composition at Columbia College and is coeditor at Columbia College’s literary journal, Court Green.
