“In quietude I feel I am everywhere at once—my own body rehearsing its wintering act, too. I look up from the table to the far side of the lake to see a buck limping, his hind legs sixteenth-notes in the dry leaves. From far off, a shot sounds like an encyclopedia falling to a wooden floor and like the echo of its striking.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Lake Macbride” by Kathleen Maris Paltrineri from Vol. 32:2 of CALYX Journal!
Kathleen Maris Paltrineri is a candidate in the Iowa Literary Translation Workshop where she translates Norwegian poetry. A 2018 Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell College and recipient of a Jentel Artist Residency Fellowship, her work has been published in jubilat and Bennington Review. She was a 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference poetry scholar. She lives in Solon, IA.