as if pale doves lit
my kitchen with their wings
beating smoke
as if a shell sang
silver coins
into my bed
and your answer
turned to sapphire
and stayed spoken
as if the water
in my bath
turned to wine
A New Hampshire native, Kelley White studied
at Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School and has been a pediatrician
in inner-city Philadelphia for more than twenty years. Her poems
have been widely published over the past five years, including several
book collections and chapbooks.
