Troubling a Star

Deborah Godin

6 X 9 inches, 64 pages

A FINAL LOOK AT THE COSMOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL ORDERS within the landscape Deborah Godin perceives and imagines. This is the third volume in Godin's philosophical autobiography, following Stranded in Terra and Translating Genesis. These poems sing the Earth electric.

The moon rises ever the same, but nearer


silently emerging from behind 


the horizon, escaping the net of trees


uneasy satellite, subtending 


at a brave new degree


rolling over the crest it pours


light down over the sleeping precincts


ghostly St. Mary's on the hill     reflecting


in the cut and polished marble headstones


sprinkling silvery exes in the shape


of the Greek letter chi     over the dark river





it is nearly as bright as day


a roosting robin sings out briefly in


its sleep     full in the night


the moon binds itself to us


it leans low, and the ancient face


looms large in our dreams


accompanied, it seems, by muted organ-music


softly it hums to us     Kepler's lullaby

Deborah Godin

Author

Poems and short stories by Deborah Godin have been published in several journals and anthologies since 1975, including Northward Journal, Event, Antigonish Review, Canadian Forum, and others. She has been on CBC Radio in Alberta. Her art criticism and reviews have appeared in Arts West Magazine and the Alberta Culture Visual Arts publication. And she has exhibited her artwork in Calgary, Toronto and Saint John.