"Reading" by Diane Glancy
Poetry
Reading
One’s relationship to the shape of place
or maybe the shape of space
as it is not tied down
but has in it
a series of places
as in moving to move often.
To work.
To be.
As the geography
of a paragraph
that is in a book
is one of others
held by the binding
that defines the definite shape.
Yet the cartography
is a concept of changing terrain.
The moving narrative is the point-that-holds
the variables that circulate.
It is momentum
that is the center post
sturdy
as a cube of equal space.
About the poet:
DIANE GLANCY's latest books are "Piece," "Psalm to Whom(e)" and "A Line of Driftwood, the Ada Blackjack Story." Her other books are on her website, www.dianeglancy.com. Currently she lives in North Central Texas. February 21, she received the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from Christianity and Literature at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, actually driving there from Texas through winter storms. Actually, another book "Home Is the Road, Wandering the Land, Shaping the Spirit" is another title of one of her books. She has received numerous awards, also on her website.
