By Luke Hankins
In the fog
an eye
glowing
In the eye
a glowing
fog
~
Lobs of fruit depend
groundward
upon
apple trees
Apple trees
depend upon
lobs
of groundward
fruit
~
The moon like an eye
like the fruit like the moon
An eye like the fruit
like the moon like an eye
The fruit like the moon
like an eye like the fruit
~
designs, pendant—
dependent signs
Luke Hankins is the author of a collection of poems, Weak Devotions, and the editor of Poems of Devotion: An Anthology of Recent Poets (both from Wipf & Stock). His latest book, The Work of Creation: Selected Prose, is forthcoming from Wipf & Stock in January. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including 32 Poems, American Literary Review, The Collagist, Contemporary Poetry Review, New England Review, Poetry East, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Chronicle, as well as on the American Public Media national radio program "On Being." He is the founder and editor of Orison Books, a non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives (www.orisonbooks.com).