22 | Jami Macarty | Mind of Spring

MIND OF SPRING
VALLUM CHAPBOOK SERIES NO. 22
Winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award
JAMI MACARTY

Set in a desert borderland, Mind of Spring, a poem in three parts, uses contemplation as a compositional element to call to attention the social, cultural, environmental, and personal mechanisms of war. Written across borders—both visible and invisible—between homelessness and home, estrangement and intimacy, lyric and language, the poem reflects on an accreting grief for the world and meaning of the observed, while offering the reader an alternative to the commodified and monetized.

“palo verde blossoms
…………………….dispatched

speed no different
……………….. than snow’s

covering…….making unknown…….this ground

yellows …….y y e l l o ws…….ggaalore”

Author’s Bio

Jami Macarty  is the author of Mind of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award, and Landscape of The Wait (Finishing Line Press 2017). She teaches creative writing at Simon Fraser University, edits the online poetry journal The Maynard, and writes Peerings & Hearings–Occasional Musings on Arts in the City of Glass, a blog series for Anomalous Press (FKA Drunken Boat).