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Burch's
work appears in The Antioch Review, Barrow Street, North
American Review, Poetry International, Southern Poetry Review,
Nimrod, Tar River Poetry, Many Mountains Review, and
Red Rock Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her book, Sweet
to Burn, won the Gival Poetry Prize for 2004 and
a Lambda Literary Award. It is available through Amazon.com.
She has published two collections of nonfiction: On Intimate
Terms (U. of Ill. Press) and Other Women (Columbia
University Press). She is also a psychotherapist in Berkeley,
California.
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other poems:
Email
Beverly Burch at bvburch@yahoo.com
Beverly
has been featured in PoetryMagazine.com.
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Above
the Bay
Ohlone
Canyon turns slick after heavy rain,
but we agree to meet, hope the mucks hardened.
Our trail looks churned, congealed, a mosaic
sticks-rock-muda rough ribbon in the woods.
We hold hands inside your pocket. A truce,
you say. I didnt want to name it, make us self-
conscious. Signs of recovery. Yes.
I could take issue, but the skys a blue relief,
Farallones visible past the Golden Gate.
Why is tenderness not simple? Like the throb
of warmth in April, the reliable way
spring offers itself. And the glossy body
of the bay below, how sun falls across
water, gold paint spilling over broken glass.
First
published in Tar River Poetry. Copyright © Beverly
Burch
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