In Breath

H.E. Fisher

meditation’s disquieted pitch

                                of space

punched

                        from our city

i hold                breath

as if there is volume to spare

and count              the holes

we make on this island

for angels’ muted trumpets

and sound the hollows

to be filled

        at rest

as if by loss’s yardstick

    there is no measure

 H.E. Fisher is a multi-genre writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Yes Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, Juke Joint Magazine, Pithead Chapel, The Rumpus, Barren Magazine, among other publications. She is the 2019 recipient of The Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson. Her lyrical essay “Ocean: An Autobiograph­­y” (Hopper Magazine) was nominated for Best of the Net. She lives in Rockland County, New York.