ALEMBIC by Vicki Graham

ISBN 1-890193-20-8
Letterpress edition of 300 copies.
14 poems
5" x 8"
Monotype Deepdene type printed on Mohawk Superfine in Fabriano wraps.

The lake's eye clouds and shuts.
Kame and kettle, the prairie

accepts the weight of each new winter,
bears traces of an older lover.

But these two walk without touching,
leave prints on paths softened

by a December thaw.
She fits her hand into the cup

of an empty nest, and he strokes
lichens radiating on pale rock.

She almost touches him, stops---
tracks old scars and turns back.

from 'Positions' in Alembic (Red Dragonfly Press, 2001)

Vicki Graham teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Minnesota, Morris. The Tenderness of Bees, published by Red Dragonfly Press, 2008, is also available. In the summer of 2006, she was a writer in residence at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon. Her writings on the forest have become part of the Long Term Ecological Reflections archive, preserved at Oregon State University in Corvallis.