What Light: This Week’s Poem: Greg Watson
Greg Watson is the twelfth poet chosen in this once-a-week yearlong survey of Minnesotas poets and their work. The series is sponsored by Magers & Quinn Booksellers.
SHARD
Small fragments of light
between the limbs of winter trees: the way
a single word
bears the spark of all others,
or how one memory
reflects another — a shard of crystal
in the window
collecting the dust the sun has cast off,
turning us back once more,
once more to the world
which grieves both our absence
and return.
Greg Watson’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Seattle Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, and Writer’s Journal. His two most recent collections are Cold Water Memory (2001) and Pale Light from a Distant Room (2004), both published by March Street Press. His latest, Things You Will Never See Again, will be published later this year. He lives in St. Paul.