Welcome to “Poetry at The Arts Fuse.” A new poem every Thursday.

“house finch nesting” from The House Begins An Alphabet

  house finch nesting

    in knotted hair that sigh

for seeded minutes

            seeded minutes

measuring

a stripped cove

            some days

cool weather

 breaks chest bone

 some days, it blows the house down

 hurries in the house song

                 drum-body-bridge

drum-body-bridge

     always in wooden is the wood

for Sally

Marina Lazzara’s most recent publications are The Public Sound (fmsbw Press) and Roots and Routes, Poetics at New College of California (Vernon Press), which she co-edited with Patrick James Dunagan and Nicholas James Whittington. She is also a musician and lyricist. Her music can be found here and here.

Note: Hey poets! We seek submissions of excellent poetry from across the length and breadth of contemporary poetics. See submission guidelines here. The arbiter of the feature is the magazine’s poetry editor, John Mulrooney.

— Arts Fuse editor Bill Marx