Blue Ruby

by Heather H. Thomas

From the book:

THE BEING GROUND

Breaths gather firm the old pages
white spines, row of books in a foreign
language you try to love

the questions like locked rooms
windows framed blue
beyond irritable reaching

A letter is mind but you must
return bodily to the scarcity of love
tune to correction in the secret

hollows of fingers and toes
your mouth passing through
the wound the flower you know

On the being ground
unharnessed from memory we hold
each other, not collapsing

into the future, but careful
as an act of silence
allows itself to be read.

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Heather H. Thomas is a poet, writer, workshop teacher, and Professor Emerita of English at Kutztown University. Her poems are widely published in print and online literary journals and anthologies. Her work is translated into Arabic, Albanian, Hebrew, Italian, Lithuanian, Spanish, and Swedish. She has won the Rita Dove Poetry Prize, two Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, and the Temple University Academy of American Poets Prize.

She has also written as H.T. Harrison.