Verdad Magazine Volume 29
Fall 2020, Volume 29
Poetry by Steve Mueske/Images by Kevin Solie
Beyond Eden
In the deepest part of the inheld breath,
in the dirt that holds the seed: the unripened fear
of a world outside
control. Vined like intaglio
in the imagination, nature’s nature
is to reclaim. So we tame &
channel, tune in, activate, time.
We square off & line, wire & light. Send the blue
spirits frolicking across the miles. To believe
in a world fashioned from the world.
A tree in the image of another, bearing
the fruit of fire.
Liminal
here in a pocket of light a moth is fluttering
between states a caretaker
of silence an angel
with a word too terrible
to say
she guards her history
all the ways
she’s been
imagined without
being
seen
all she asks for is
silence the solace
of a few perfect notes of music
the haunting in her heart
to be named
freed
BIO: Steve Mueske is an electronic musician and the author of a chapbook and two books of poetry. His poems have appeared recently in The Iowa Review, Water~Stone Review, Cream City Review, Verdad, Cold Mountain Review, The Pinch Journal, The Normal School, Jet Fuel Review, and elsewhere..
Kevin Solie is a 30-year veteran of the software engineering industry. Having contributed to a wide range of software applications, Kevin finds digital imaging the most rewarding. When not coding, he pursues his obsession with black and white photography. His work can be found on Instagram @kevinsolie
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