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Clade Song 16

Summer Solstice

I enter the warmth of doves.

A little sparrow carries me
over the glistening back
of the painted turtle's slow march
to Machu Picchu.

Viper's bugloss sings velvety with chicory.

Trefoil clenches soil.

Wild strawberries fall like virga through my smile.

My body is everywhere.

My mind has become a drop of water flying.

 

  
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Erin Wilson's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in On the Seawall, Atlanta Review, Sugar House Review, Lake Effect, The Fiddlehead, Dalhousie Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere internationally. The title poem from her collection, Blue, won a Pushcart. Her work will appear in Best Canadian Poetry 2026, and she won a Silver Medal with the National Magazine Awards in Canada. She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory, in Northern Ontario, Canada, the traditional lands of the Anishnawbek, devoted to a handful of things, all of them poetry. Some of her best friends are trees. She refuses to carry a cell phone.