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KB Ballentine
Caul of night invades the Black Valley,
crow roams the still-warm thermals,
Gap of Dunloe stained red with stonecrop.
Dundee masked beneath MacGillycuddy’s Reeks,
Coosaun Lough slips low, Wishing Bridge creaking,
groaning as doves keen in the pilings.
Blackthorn spikes horizon’s fire, an owl swiveling
its neck, eyes wide at the coming dark.
KB Ballentine's fifth collection of poems, Almost Everything, Almost Nothing, is forthcoming by Middle Creek Publishing. Her fourth collection, The Perfume of Leaving, was awarded the 2016 Blue Light Press Book Award. Her work also appears in In God’s Hand (2017), River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the Twenty-first Century (2015), Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee (2013) and Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets (2011).
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