RACHEL LODEN

 

 


Rachel Loden is the author of Hotel Imperium (University of Georgia Press), winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition. Loden has also published four chapbooks, including The Richard Nixon Snow Globe (Wild Honey Press). Her work has appeared recently in New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, and Best American Poetry 2005, and she has been interviewed in The Iowa Review and Jacket.
Awards include a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Poetry from the California Arts Council, and a 2006 grant from the Fund for Poetry. She maintains a website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVA ALBION

 

 

What becomes

a universe

 

best? Some say

Y_HW_H

 

kvelling

in the wilderness:

 

some sweep in

everything-

 

that-is-the-case

but I

 

cleave

fast to these,

 

their red

and orange

 

willfulness:

 

Icelandic

poppies

 

straight up

as they awaken.

 

 

©  Rachel Loden 2006.

 

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