ripped apart the night,
but not this moon.
Far from the wind-shattered
clouds piled against the sky’s edge –
a bite-dented circle, a flattened coin
perched in charcoal blue,
a stark-white communion wafer
the night swallows –
fills the purple-black
with the glitter of grace.
Author Bio:
Pattie Palmer-Baker is a Portland, OR artist and poet. Although she often combines these two forms of expression in collages of paste paper and calligraphy, the inspiration for and the meaning of the artwork lies within the poem. Over the years of exhibiting her artwork, the discovery that many people responded most strongly to the poetry motivated her to strengthen her focus on writing. The goal of all her creative output is to translate the inner world into a media that moves readers away from their habitual perception of the world.