This week, we welcome Leah Umansky. Umansky is a teacher, a poet and the author of two full-length collections, “The Barbarous Century” and “Domestic Uncertainties,” among others. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is the curator and host of “The Couplet Reading Series” in NYC. She is resisting the tyrant with her every move. For more of Umansky’s work, visit her website and Instagram page.
It is Uncertain
even
in these
certain times
and the unknowing
the unknowing is
a breaking
and the breaking is
a breaking back
of days
and each moment
is a splintering
of time
and a splintering
of the self and our selves
each moment is
a splintering or
a sliver in
the layers of
our skin
a slice in
our multitude
a split of
our cells
our truths
our lies
our stories
time is
at an arm’s length
an arm is
a distance almost
unimaginable
What I would give
to wrap these arms
around another.
I saw the sun
break
through the clouds
yesterday,
it was like a beacon
of hope
it was like
a cherishing
of our days
a turning outward to inward to upward with body and soul and whatever this life of is made up of