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THE LINCOLN REVIEW
AMALGAM
I found a small rock
gleaming, with its sparkle of mica
and grains of sand in shadowed
crevices at low tide, an amalgam
from the once alive,
so light it might have flown,
a brain aloft in a seabird’s skull,
or wingless it flew, a meteorite shorn
from a distant place, and plunged
as cormorant into the cove’s gray water,
a bird searching for a fish
to bring glittering to the surface,
its cosmic weight its own,
fed before it was found, this
rock a remnant, little moon
of our solar system,
I turn in my damp hand
in dry daylight.
James Brasfield is the author of Infinite Altars, Ledger of Crossroads, and Cove, forthcoming in Spring 2023, from Louisiana State University Press. He lives in Belfast, Maine.
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ISSN 2632-4423
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