Poem of the Week

Shawn Fawson, a finalist in Narrative’s Eighth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Some Giving Way, winner of the Utah Book Award for Poetry. She holds an MFA from Vermont College and is a doctoral student in the joint PhD program at the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver, where she studies the intersections of theology and contemporary poetry. Fawson lives in Denver, where she serves as an on-call hospital chaplain.

A Crow Flies Cleanly over the Cornstalks

by Shawn Fawson

Down the road outside my grandmother’s town,
women still light candles at dusk. The almanac
tells them when the moon passes into ghost weather.
I almost see her parish church at the shore
and snow falling, while inside the candles guttering,
a head nodding so the quiet ones can talk. A bell.

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