Claudia M. Stanek

Claudia M. Stanek's work has been turned into a libretto, been part of an art exhibition, and been translated into Polish. Her poems exist online, in print, and in her chapbook Language You Refuse to Learn. She holds an MFA from Bennington College. Her rescued dogs try to manage her life.

Birches

See, against the light? The body’s

landscape is marked by pain’s highway.

Fracture lies within. The glowing

Sea of the mind-strewn twists itself

Into noir nano-second glass.

God plants you beneath the birches.

Angels rattle the leaves in chant.

Read more of Claudia’s work in Solum Journal Volume III.