Body Palmistry
Fate is broken My horse is dead, again
Trace the intricate ornament– the bloodlines of his body
My bracelets are scar tissue rings without moons
The wrong-winged sparrow writes her name upside down
a silent flight across a wreath of her own fallen feathers
The pattern is in forgiving
Everyone ever lost is spiriting I am spiriting
into a constellation of knots I wear my prayer
A sentence a delicate as lungs
Jenny Della Santa’s work can be found in Thrush, Palette Poetry, Pretty Owl Poetry & The Hunger. She was an Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize winner and nominee for Best of The Net and Best New Poets. She has an MFA from Mills College and lives in Oakland with her husband and young daughter.