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Jenna Funkhouser
The Firth
in the fog,
the light is
everywhere
air radiant
and wool-colored,
a linen bier.
fragrant with seagrass
the heron
forms
slight,
stark, lancing
time rippling
around two black apostrophes—now
the firth glowing with sky
the heron a dark shiver of mirror
I, the incandescent
stranger.
The FirthJenna K. Funkhouser
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Jenna K. Funkhouser is a Pacific Northwest-based artist and poet. Recent poems have been published by Ekstasis, St. Katherine Review, Penwood Review, and Stirring Lit, among others. You can find her most recent ekphrastic collection, "Bright Inhabited Lives" (Kelsay Books) and other recent work at jennakfunkhouser.com.
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