Monika Lee | A SEVEN-STORY MOUNTAIN

 

A SEVEN-STORY MOUNTAIN

She climbs the ben
…………… the ragged,
……………………. jagged brae,
seven stories soaring
to Eden’s sunlit peak.

Bounded by southern seas,
the mountain is
the world, its two paths

up or

……………………. down

steep bluffs canopy
white spires hover

as she scales to surmount

the top ridge
crested with a stream,
a deep wood,
a griffin’s nest,

the discretion of dawn.

She ascends to surge,
scrambles to aspire,
outleaps her ridged feet
for fear of a littoral drop.

 

Author’s Bio

Monika Lee wrote gravity loves the body (2008), skin to skin (with Shelly Harder, 2016) and slender threads (2004). Her poems appear in Canadian Literature, Vallum, Scrivener Creative Review, Dalhousie Review, Nashwaak Review, Harpweaver, A Room of One’s Own, Event, Atlantis, The Fiddlehead, Antigonish Review, Windsor Review, and many other journals.