I have faith in the darkness
that surrounds me—
in the holy unspoken prayer
the unborn child
the photograph coming to light
So small am I in my inertia
like Nothing hurtling through
the eternal chasm of my loneliness
And yet only out of the depths
am I able to climb deeper into That
which holds me suspended
in the knowable Unknown
I do not know if I am
sinking or rising star
morning or evening
What does it matter?
I just keep climbing
out of myself
out of that dark hole
I have dug once too often
into the Holiness
into the Holiness
© 2019, Antonia Alexandra Kilmenko
ANTONIA ALEXANDRA KILMENKO is a former San Francisco Poetry Slam Champion and she is widely published. Her work has appeared in (among others) XXI Century World Literature (in which she represents France) and Maintenant : Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art archived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She is the recipient of two grants: one from Poets in Need, of which Michael (100 Thousand Poets for Change) Rothenberg is a co-founder; the second—the 2018 Generosity Award bestowed on her by Kathleen Spivack and Josheph Murray for her outstanding service to international writers through SpokenWord Paris where she is Writer/ Poet in Residence.
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