Sidney Wade

Fata Morgana

this morning 

winter sun pours 

    through dark oaks

        on the avenue

bright clean and rich

   and the soul soars

    and the body feels

every cell is about to break 

through illusion

and disperse 

into pure shine

Sidney Wade’s eighth volume of poems, Deep Gossip: New & Selected Poems, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in April 2020. Bird Book was published by Atelier26 in 2016. She taught poetry and translation in the MFA@FLA Creative Writing Program at the University of Florida for 21 years and is currently professor emerita.