M.S. Rooney lives in
Sonoma, California with her husband, poet Dan Noreen. Her work appears
in journals and anthologies, including Clare, The Laurel Review, The
MacGuffin, Poem, Other Voices, Rockhurst Review, Slant, 3AM Magazine
and Fresh Water: Poems from the Rivers, Lakes and Streams
(Pudding House Publications, 2002).
Let us slip those
who would strip veils
even from twilight, wring
umber from the curve
of the moon,
for sweet dreams are aborning
beneath cover of mind.
Let us slip down,
to river beds hollowed
by seasonal storms,
join seeds slipping silently,
by water, by night,
far from stake, from tie,
from trellis, from wire.
