psalm from a gult coast garden
by Elisheva Fox
bless our stupid, human hearts
believing that adam somehow
merited the power to name every animal,
believing that we are
superior somehow,
when the proof of our smallness sings,
pride on swooping power lines —
mockingbirds making war with music,
and then flying away,
alive.
Elisheva Fox is a poet with roots firmly planted in Texan soil. A finalist for the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, she has also been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize; her work has appeared in Rust + Moth, Paper Brigade, Strange Horizons, Salvation South, and Lavender Review, among others. Spellbook for the Sabbath Queen, from Belle Point Press, is her first collection of poems, and was selected for Jewish Women’s Archive 2023-2024 Book Club Picks.
