Lisa Rosenberg

Sun, Flower

The center of anything has work to do. Bearing, spinning, taking things in, sending them
out again. Pupil and iris. Axle and hub. The dense, dark center of our gathered stars,
swathed in what light it hasn’t swallowed, dragging bright dust in arced scarves. Aster to
aster, disk to disk. The way a word begets a world. Say inflorescence. Say one bent petal
rests on the rim. A tear. An inflection. Say the mind travels there, a foot explores the
unexpected curve. 

Poet and recovering engineer Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics (Red Mountain Press). The recipient of a Djerassi Residency and Wallace Stegner Fellowship, she served as Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, California, and is a frequent speaker on the confluence of arts and sciences. Her poems and essays appear in venues such as POETRY, The Common, The Threepenny Review, Bad Lilies, Terrain.org, and Amsterdam Quarterly.