Outside Monticiano, Tuscany
by Katy Giebenhain
Katy Giebenhain edits the Poetry + Theology rubric for Seminary Ridge Review. Her poems have appeared in Saint Katherine Review, The Cresset, Glasgow Review of Books, The Examined Life Journal, Transpositions, Spiritus, and elsewhere. She co-hosts a coffeehouse reading series in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Her collection Sharps Cabaret is forthcoming from Mercer University Press. kgiebenhain@ltsg.edu
Here the road
is a crushed skin of floors
whose houses no longer exist,
dirt and tiles
beneath uneven stripes of sky.
Outside Monticiano
trees surprise us.
The snake propels herself
serenely through the leaves.
Just shy of silence,
a branch-to-belly-whisper
summons gooseflesh.
Tiles with a pulse. Tiles with a past.
Behold this mosaic of muscle
alive, and still whole.
Katy Giebenhain edits the Poetry + Theology rubric for Seminary Ridge Review. Her poems have appeared in Saint Katherine Review, The Cresset, Glasgow Review of Books, The Examined Life Journal, Transpositions, Spiritus, and elsewhere. She co-hosts a coffeehouse reading series in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Her collection Sharps Cabaret is forthcoming from Mercer University Press. kgiebenhain@ltsg.edu
Here the road
is a crushed skin of floors
whose houses no longer exist,
dirt and tiles
beneath uneven stripes of sky.
Outside Monticiano
trees surprise us.
The snake propels herself
serenely through the leaves.
Just shy of silence,
a branch-to-belly-whisper
summons gooseflesh.
Tiles with a pulse. Tiles with a past.
Behold this mosaic of muscle
alive, and still whole.
