by MaryAnn L. Miller
Earth Wobble
hot jelly jam core
moves a minuscule degree
towards critical mass
volcanoes and fissures
water hot enough to boil fish
bones shot into the steaming air
a serpent is brought
some place between
Sagittarius and Scorpio
artists are prophets in our practices
who feel something changing
miles down beneath our feet
MaryAnn L. Miller has exhibited prints, paintings, and artists’ books in Italy, Costa Rica, Mexico City, Manchester, England, Puffin Forum, Frontline Arts, and many colleges and universities across the United States. She was the Resident Book Artist at the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College from 2001-2016. Miller is also the author of Falling into the Diaspora (Finishing Line Press 2023), Time is a Snake’s Tongue (CW Books 2023), Cures for Hysteria (FLP 2018) and Locus Mentis (PS Books 2012) and has been thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her writing has appeared in Mom Egg Review, Still Water Review, Wild River Review, Presence Journal, Ovanque Siamo, Passager, International Review of African America Art, and the anthologies Illness as a Form of Existence, Welcome to the Resistance, Stained and Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War. She has the neuromuscular condition Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis. www.maryann.miller.com.