Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge SECOND PLACE WINNER: “ode to the convex” By Rae Norman
It’s time to congratulate the Second Place Winner of Frontier Poetry‘s Ode on a Grecian Vacation Challenge, Rae Norman. Read their tender love poem, selected by our editorial team, “ode to the convex.”
In Norman’s poem, this is her world and others are just living in it. There is no need to promise the shifting stars or the fullness of the moon when declaring your love. Norman demonstrates to her love instead that “the universe” is subjective and defined. For her it’s fullness. It’s the feeling of a hip curving into a palm. It’s a shadow at the door.
Enjoy their poetry below.
ode to the convex
– the curve of a hip
(the curve of our universe expanding,
red-shifting Godwards and infinite and
if it is true that we are all just dust in the end
at least i’ve held the bend of our planet in my palms)
(all kinds)
– the moon
– touch
(yes, this too bends—
Rae Norman
Rae Norman writes every now and then. You can find her poetry in Wrongdoing Magazine, Perhappened, Writers Resist, the lickety-split, Falling Star Magazine, and Isacoustic, and find her on twitter at @raeswriting.
