Exciting news from the OGSP: Michaela Reed's poem to be featured in Cottonwood Literary Magazine
Exciting news from the OGSP: Michaela Reed's poem to be featured in Cottonwood Literary Magazine
We are delighted to share that Michaela Reed, MFA student and graduate assistant in Office of Grants and Sponsored Projects, will have her poem, titled “Ghazal,” featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Cottonwood Literary Magazine.
Below is a preview of her beautiful work:
Ghazal
In summer, we hook the tail of a star before we wake,
drag it down, light the flames of our altar, before we wake.
Three wrinkled nymphs stir the river Lethe with wooden spoons,
churning, per our demand, its reservoir, before we wake.
On the plains, earth-smattered buffalo serenade the wind.
Following their song, we find her polestar before we wake.
I want to make my lover a prince, cover him in silks,
parade him, steer his horse by its halter, before we wake.
Maybe one day we will finally comprehend the dark,
side-by-side, through the eyes of the jaguar, before we wake.
Can it be that the Arctic is still not blackened with blood?
Our borealis may be cinnabar before we wake.
Sweetpea, abandon the work of being your own tumor.
Be free. Make your heart, before we wake, the last thing you mar.