Home
Current Issue
Back Issues
Premium Archive
Forum
Site Guide
Feedback
Search

Subscribe
Renew
Gift Subscription
Subscriber Help

Browse >>
  Books & Critics
  Fiction & Poetry
  Foreign Affairs
  Politics & Society
  Pursuits & Retreats

Subscribe to our free
e-mail newsletters

More on Fiction & Poetry from The Atlantic Monthly.

Contents | April 2006

Also by Mary Karr:

"Sinners Welcome" (November 2004)

The Atlantic Monthly | April 2006

Poetry

Meditatio

by Mary Karr

.....

In the back’s low hollow sometimes
a weightless hand guides me, gentle pressure
so I tack soft as a sailboat. (Go there)

Soften the space between your eyes (smudge
of eucalyptus), the third eye
opens. There’s the wide vermilion sky

This article is viewable only by Atlantic subscribers. If you are not yet a subscriber, please consider subscribing online now. In addition to receiving a full year (ten issues) of the print magazine at a rate far below the newsstand price, you will be granted instant access to everything The Atlantic Online has to offer—including this article!

Click here to join us as an Atlantic subscriber.

If you are already a subscriber, and have previously registered for access to the Web site, please log in above.

If you are already a subscriber, but have not yet registered for access to the Web site, click here to do so.

What do you think? Discuss this article in Post & Riposte.

Mary Karr’s fourth collection of poems, Sinners Welcome, has just been published. She is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.