IN NUMBERS GREAT

Katherine West

Last night I had a dream I flew
A flying fish, I leapt from fountains,
from sacred pools long and blue.
I Dreamt I hung, then plunged as from a mountain.

From somewhere there was singing.
From somewhere there were birds.
From somewhere there was ringing.
From somewhere a flight of words.

And then the women came in numbers great.
Not soldiers, swinging legs with weighted feet,
but neighbors after fear, startled awake
saying: It’s over now, and do you have a drum to beat?

 And do you have a dance?
Give me, give me your broken hands.

Photo by Levi Guzman on Unsplash

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Katherine West lives in Southwest New Mexico, near Silver City. She has written three collections of poetry: The Bone Train, Scimitar Dreams, and Riddle, as well as one novel, Lion Tamer. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Writing in a Woman's Voice, Lalitamba, Bombay Gin, New Verse News, Tanka Journal, Splash!, Eucalypt, Writers Resist, Feminine Collective and Southwest Word Fiesta. New Verse News nominated her poem And Then the Sky for a Pushcart Prize in 2019. In addition she has had poetry appear as part of art exhibitions at the Light Art Space gallery in Silver City, New Mexico, the Windsor Museum in Windsor, Colorado, and the Tombaugh Gallery in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is also an artist.

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