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Michelangelo
Drawn as if by geomagnetic forces
or the winds that sweep the trade routes
bearing wagon-loads of secrets
from exotic lands,
all man s fierce desires against
the dust storms, the fatigue
and treacheries, across lavender
distances of barren sand
it s drawn just so, in wet pigment
on the chapel ceiling, Grace
that passes as if by live osmosis
hand to reaching hand.
Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada,
and also helps her husband (a retired wildlife biologist) with his field projects.
Her poems have appeared in America, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry
International, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere, and she’s included in the anthology
California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Her latest book,
The Downstairs Dance Floor (Texas Review Press, 2006), is winner of the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.
Email: Taylor Graham
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