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Beth Ames Swartz

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Broken World (2020-22)

What I hold healed, original now, and pure

Its voice an instant in the wind

I know not whither hurled

Before the stars are caught and hived in the sun’s ray

The Three Body Problem

Banked voices slain!

Visible wings of silence sown

In azure circle, widening as they dip

Cleft to despair

In wounds pledged once to hope

When darkness comes . . .

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And so it was I entered the broken world to trace the visionary company of love

My love is like to ice, and I to fire

Pentecostal fire in the dark time of the year

The wind scatters tears upon dust

In the forest of the night

Water and fire succeed