Stone Christ
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I proliferate: budding, then buddingin excess again. Wouldn't mind your narrowshoulders, vertical arising.Under the dome of the library, find mewide as a woman on a boat,passing the crag for a glacier not visitedbefore. Every increment, warmthdisappears behind invisible doors. If livingwith death at the door is to livelike the hungry, I witness a mountain: full,on the water, here, my vinesever soundless, their eyes in the library skylight,imperial room, nodding,embowed. Rooted as the vestigial range,there is no end to me,stone Christ,
KJERSTIN ANNE KAUFFMAN has taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and Hillsdale College. Her poems appear in 32 Poems, Gulf Coast, Mezzo Cammin, THRUSH, and elsewhere. A member of the ALSCW, she has published criticism and essays in venues such as The Cresset, Literary Matters, and The American Poetry Review. She lives in Spokane, WA.
